On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 03:48:25AM +0200, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> $ postqueue -p
> ----Queue ID----- --Size-- ---Arrival Time---- --Sender/Recipient------
> 3n97rq4vbmz1gT 2660 Tue Sep 8 03:18:03 dane-users-boun...@sys4.de
> (connect to some.server.tld[12.34.56.78]:25: Connection
> refused)
> lists...@server.tld
> (conversation with some.otherserver.tld[78.90.12.34] timed out while
> receiving the initial server greeting)
> r...@remote-destination.tld
>
> I - at least I - find it hard to write scripts that parse this output and
> generate e.g. statistics from it. This is mostly due to the multiline nature
> of
> the output.
The multi-line format is better IMHO, a message can have a great
many recipients, and addresses can contain internal whitespace.
Have you considered modifying "qshape" to fit your needs? Or better
yet, surely statistics should be based on logs, not "mailq" output.
What real problem are you trying to solve?
--
Viktor.
