Mark Sapiro wrote: > Tom Ray [Lists] wrote: > >> According to the report one list has 14,297 posts but according to the >> Post Count by Sender report 13,797 of those posts came from >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] So does that mean that only 500 posts were made by >> members or are those 13,797 more then just commands from the members? I >> would appreciate a better explanation on that. >> > > > This is a bug in Mailman pre 2.1.7 that logged the envelope sender of > the outgoing message instead of the incoming message. > > So I'm sure I'm understanding you correctly then that some of those message could be valid posts made by members since this list was around since 2.1.4 or so? > >> Also, under the Hourly Summary of Message Sent report from the smtp log. >> The totals are based on how many email addresses the message was sent >> to, correct? So if a list has 250 members it counts each message per >> member? I know that it bundles the message per connection so a single >> SMTP connect could have 100 messages in it. I just want to make sure. >> > > > Yes, you are correct. This comes from the smtp log and is the total > number of recipients which depending on mm_cfg settings could be one > smtp connection per recipient or a single smtp connection with a few > smtp transactions with hundreds of recipients per transaction, or > something in between. But the number is always the total recipients. > > > >> The problem is that my email server is being beaten in to the ground and >> it looks like this clients lists (they have 8 or so) are seeing a heavy >> increase in membership and frequency. I need to put numbers together so >> I can tell them they need to either get a dedicated list server or pay >> more (so I can upgrade!). >> >> Any help would be great. I'm just a bit ignorant on the internal >> workings of MM but am learning. Plus I don't know Python from a hole in >> the ground so I'm leery about messing with code to much. >> > > > The mmdsr report gives you post count per list and by sender, but due > to the mailman bug in 2.1.6 and earlier, these are usually the same > since the sender is list-bounces. > > It also gives the hourly summary of posts and of messages sent, the > latter of which is really the number of recipients, not the number of > smtp transactions or smtp connects. > > It does not give you messages sent by list. In order to get that, you > need to look at the 'post' log to get the list and from information > and the message-id and then get the corresponding message-id entry > from the smtp log to get the number of recipients. > > Thanks for the information. I'm tearing apart the post log because I want to get the total size of the message. Then I need to figure out how many emails where sent so I can figure out bandwidth usage. I mean if they send a 10K file to a list with 1,000 members that's a lot of bandwidth to send out. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
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