Hello, I have been toying with the best way to produce a report of 'allowed' messages that have made it all the way through my Postfix. I love the Postfix logs, they give such detail on failures and refusals and parsing this is quite straightforward.
The entertainment commences when I try to figure out how to produce a report of 'allowed' messages. This needs to contain just a few pieces of key information; date/time from to subject client IP At first, I thought 'this will be easy' but upon closer examination this is not as simple as it looks. Where Postfix is multi-process, the bits of information are in different places and consolidating this has some challenges. In particular matching up (by script) the interaction for a transaction between; postfix/smtpd postfix/cleanup postfix/virtual postfix/qmgr Perhaps there is an easy way to get the five metrics I would like in a report? I am starting to think I may need to plug something in to 'scan' the headers of a message after Postfix is done with it or pipe the messages through a script? To keep things lean and for learning, I am interested to achieve this with a some Perl- so my interest is really in finding the 'key' to link the information together from what is already produced - or - to work out how to get messages to pipe through a script as 'virtual' delivers them. Unless Virtual can give me all the information I need (logging options????) Perhaps some of the very clever guru's here have some useful suggestion? -- ----------------------------------------------------------- C Werclick .Lot Technical incompetent Loyal Order Of The Teapot. This e-mail and its attachments is intended only to be used as an e-mail and an attachment. Any use of it for other purposes other than as an e-mail and an attachment will not be covered by any warranty that may or may not form part of this e-mail and attachment.
