> last sent a message to that address so it wasn't to hard to find. I
> haven't used a report program on them what type of reports can you get?
There are two reporting programs that I know of. qmail-mrtg (v0.1 and then
v1.0, developed by different people I think but still the same project), and
qmailanalog. qmailanalog offers a lot of text-based information but from my
first looks at it, it didn't really summarise things up quite as neatly as
qmail-mrtg, and it works in a text-based interface anyway so without
creating a few scripts to make it a bit 'prettier', management would have
just said 'so what'. qmail-mrtg on the other hand offers daily, weekly,
monthly and yearly graphs (via the web).
Reports that may be generated (in one or the other) include number of
messages transferred, number of bytes transferred, remote and local
concurrency, statistics on who is sending and receiving e-mail through your
relay (qmailanalog), number of successes and failures, size of the queue
(very good on a mailing list machine)...
Our main benefit with logging is to show management how costs and needs are
increasing over time so we can obtain a little (lot? :> ) more money from
them in our department (BTW my sig says Manager IPS, but this is my own
entity not who I work for).
/BR
Manager
InterPlanetary Solutions
http://ipsware.com/
