On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:17:06 +0200 Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebra...@charite.de> wrote:
> * James Seymour <jseym...@linxnet.com>: > > > I'm curious: How might one gather and process mail server statistics > > *other* than parsing and processing the mail server's log file(s)? > > The server could be gathering stats (snmp style) in a "stats" > daemon ... [snip] Could be, but isn't. Besides which: If the stats were comprehensive, just imagine the memory usage. Or it'd have to stash them in some kind of database store all along, which might have performance implications, might it not? Serious questions/concerns. Not trying to be argumentative. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php>.
