Hello-

I am new to qmail, and am in the process of deploying my first qmail MTA
cluster, so please forgive me if this question has been asked before (I read
the FAQ and searched the archives, and I didn't see anything related).

My question relates to the logging that qmail-send does through syslog, and
qmailanalog's use of that information.

I'm pretty sure that qmailanalog uses qmail-send's logging to provide
statistics about message delays (how fast were 90% of the messages
delivered, etc.).  The problem is, the messages generated by qmail-send
don't tell the whole story- specifically, they do not tell how long the
message sat in the queue before qmail-send picked it up for the first time,
do they?

Can someone enlighten me as to whether the statistics produced by
qmailanalog include the time between when qmail-queue writes the message to
the queue and the time qmail-send picks it up for the first time.  If this
time is included, I'd be interested in how this is done, since qmail-queue
doesn't write any logs at all.  Perhaps the timestamp of the queue file is
used?

Thank you,

Danny Burkes
iReady Corporation

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