* Jeroen Geilman wrote : >* 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.
Right. Gotchya. Thanks for that, and now the numbers make sense. I guess for me it's the "legit" sent/rec'd versus spam/virus/rejections that's important and that certainly tells the tale. > If you don't believe the numbers, feel free to parse the log yourself :) Thanks, but no thanks :) >> 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. Thanks. Will look into that one. -- Troy Piggins
