I wrote a couple weeks ago about how best to trace the path of an email (an its errors) through the different multilog files. It clearly isn't an easy task. Whenever a customer asks me "I lost an email" I usually spend 10-30 minutes greping, sorting, and cross-referencing log entries before I can find what is happening.
So I'm putting the ball out there: what tools can we use to make this easier? I know there is qmlog in the QT+ but what I'm talking about are tools that go beyond "show me the log" to actually be able to help answer (real life) questions like: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] tried sending an email. It didn't work. Why? - Client is waiting to receive an email from a specific sender that has not yet arrived. Where is it? Was it blocked? - Client says they do not receive all the mail they should. Are they smoking crack? - What portion of mail sent to/from [EMAIL PROTECTED] is successful/failed? - Which remote servers are deferring (4XX errors)? Blocking (5XX errors)? - What portion of mail is blocked by rblsmtpd, spamassassin, chkuser, SPF, DomainKeys? - Are there any local delivery errors because of misconfigured procmailrc, mailfilter, broken commands, bad permissions, et cetera? - Has there been a change in average spam score since I reconfigured SA? - How many messages are flagged as spam but still delivered. % of total? An hour of Googling turned up the following: - Qmailanalog has been mentioned on this before as being both very useful but not successfully installed on the toaster. Anybody out there using it with the toaster? http://cr.yp.to/qmailanalog.html - Newanalyse seems very useful for tracing emails through the logs. http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/newanalyse.html - Qlogselect has been mentioned around the web and seems to be used by other tools. http://www.linux-peine.de/doc/merge/man1/qlogselect.1.html http://pyropus.ca/software/misc/qlogselect - Qlogtools is another oft-referenced log processing tool. http://untroubled.org/qlogtools/ - A script by Charles Cazabon that generates a summary of log files: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg45587.html So... Anybody have any experience with these? Are there any others? Can we include the most useful ones in QT+? What wants to take charge of that? ;P Thanks fellers! Quinn --------------------------------------------------------------------- Strangecode :: Internet Consultancy http://www.strangecode.com/ +1 530 624 4410 --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
