mailstats(1M)
mailstats --
print statistics collected by sendmail
Synopsis
/etc/mail/mailstats [ -C config_file ]
[ -f filename ] [ -o ]
Description
mailstats prints out statistics on mailer
usage as collected by the
sendmail(1M)
program.
sendmail collects these statistics into the file
specified by the ``S'' configuration option of sendmail,
but collects these statistics only if this file exists.
This file must be created manually by the system administrator.
By default, mailstats reads the file
specified by the ``S'' configuration option of sendmail
for the statistics to display.
The -f option allows you to specify a different source file.
The default sendmail configuration file
where mailstats looks for
the ``S'' configuration option setting
is /etc/sendmail.cf.
The -C option allows you to specify a different configuration file.
The first row of mailstats'
output is the date and time at which the collection of the
displayed statistics began.
Beneath the date and time row is a table in the following format:
M msgsfr bytes_from msgsto bytes_to msgsrej msgsdis Mailer
The table will contain one row for
each mailer that is specified in the
sendmail configuration file for which messages have been
sent or received.
No numbers are printed if no messages were sent (or received) for any mailer.
The table columns contain the following:
M-
shows the mailer number
msgsfr -
shows the number of mail messages received by sendmail from this mailer
bytes_from-
shows the collective size, in 1024 byte units, of the messages counted
in the previous column
msgsto -
shows the number of mail messages sent by sendmail using this mailer
bytes_to-
shows the collective size, in 1024 byte units, of the messages counted
in the previous column
msgsrej-
shows the number of mail messages rejected by sendmail using this mailer
msgsdis-
shows the number of mail messages discarded by sendmail using this mailer
Mailer-
shows the name of the mailer. The mailer name can be
suppressed using the -o option.
An entry can be added to
/usr/spool/cron/crontabs/root to reinitialize the
statistics once every day/night. Copy /dev/null
into the statistics file (/etc/mail/sendmail.st)
or otherwise truncate it to reset the counters.
Files
/etc/mail/sendmail.st-
Default statistics file.
/etc/sendmail.cf-
sendmail configuration file.
/usr/spool/cron/crontabs/root-
/dev/null-
Examples
Statistics from Sat Oct 10 14:14:39 1993
M msgsfr bytes_from msgsto bytes_to Mailer
3 23 457K 3 3K local
5 3 3K 13 13K tcp
In the above example, the first row indicates that the mailer statistics
displayed represent a time period between Sat Oct 10 14:14:39 1993 and
the time mailstats was invoked.
From mailer program number 3, which is the ``local'' mailer,
sendmail has received 23
messages (accounting for a total of 457KB); sendmail has
delivered 3 messages to the ``local'' mailer
(accounting for a total of 13K bytes).
References
sendmail(1M)
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