I have been looking for a tool to give me good mail receipt/rejection stats for my qmail/qmail-scanner installation. I reject, bounce, or tag mail based on RBLs, policies, uvscan, perscanner, and spamassassin. The only qmail scanner stats system I have found is Qmail-Scanner Statics, http://sourceforge.net/projects/qss/, and it only addresses virus stats based on the quarantine log. There is also a qmail monitoring system for MRTG from Inter7, http://www.inter7.com/mrtg.html It tracks a lot of good qmail stats but only the allows/denies data it collects is of interest to me for this project.
Finding these inadequate, I decided to write my own stats tool. I wrote a parser for mailstats.csv which has fairly complete data. Parsing the qmail-smtpd log file for accepts and rejects by block list should also be easy. However I am now at an impasse on issues of where to store the summary data and how much to store. So I thought I would ask the list. The data storage possibilities are endless but the common options are round robin arrays (RRAs), MRTG data files, mysql tables, and good old fashioned text files. I have looked at the sendmail oriented mailstats, http://staff.cie.uce.ac.uk/~id001869/mailstats/, and like what it presents. It uses a mix of text files and MRTG data files to store the data. I shudder at the thought of returning to MRTG now that I have a Cricket installation to do my monitoring. I like mysql because I'm very comfortable in SQL. I like RRAs because there are lots of tools to manipulate them, and they automatically age out and summarize data, but I have very little experience with them outside of Cricket. Also, how much data should we keep. If you want to grow it indefinitely, mysql is a good tool. If you want to automatically age it out, RRAs are a natural choice. I am curious to know what others would want to see in such a tool in terms of data storage mechanism, the fineness of detail to store (by hour, day, week, month, etc.) and the length of time that data needs to be around. Opinions on the report itself are welcome as well. I like what I see in mailstats, but I am open to suggestions. By the way I'm working in perl. At least that much has been decided. ;-) TIA, Philip ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
