* Viktor Dukhovni <postfix-devel@postfix.org>: > 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?
I need (nearly) real time stats on mail queues in a machine readable format. I'd like to use this on command line in scripts and/or in (web) interfaces to show queue/delivery states. I also need it e.g. to easily identify phished accounts (by number of messages/recipients). I think it is easier to implement a more machine readable format (e.g. JSON) once in Postfix than n-times in n-scripts that deal with various mail management issues. p@rick -- Patrick Ben Koetter p...@state-of-mind.de
