* James Seymour <[email protected]>: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:17:06 +0200 > Ralf Hildebrandt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > * James Seymour <[email protected]>: > > > > > 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?
Well, like anvil right now, or more like postscreen, which also stores a metric assload of data. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 [email protected] | http://www.charite.de
