On 05/23/2011 01:25 AM, Troy Piggins wrote:
I've recently been keeping an eye on my mail statistics
usingmailgraph http://mailgraph.schweikert.ch/ . I'm impressed by
the amount of spam/rejections achieved using just postgrey and some
postfix restrictions.
One thing that is puzzling me is the number of sent/received msgs.
eg today's stats have 108 msgs sent and 187 received. With the
number of mailing lists I'm on and the number of users on thisfamily
domain, that sounds about right for the received messages.
But there is no way 108 messages were sent. I don't think I
personally sent any other than this one. The other users on this
domain would not have sent that many, maybe 10 tops. It's the same
for weekly and monthly stats. The sent messages seems extremely
high.
Wondering if the "sent" for this application included the postfix
rejection messages? What other messages could be included?
Postfix is an MTA - mail comes in, mail goes out.
Mailgraph counts all messages where the status=sent.
This includes DSNs sent by postfix.
If you don't believe the numbers, feel free to parse the log yourself :)
Sorry if this is OT here, but figured many users here would be
familiar with it?
Another useful tool to gather statistics is pflogsumm; this provides
more detail about what happened to messages.
--
J.
