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From: dhawk@well.sf.ca.us (David Hawkins)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin
Subject: Need Tools to Monitor Mail Flow
Keywords: mail tools summaries
Message-ID: <23912@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 28 Mar 91 23:48:19 GMT
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This should be a common situation, so I hope someone has what I need:
Our phone bills have been skyrocketing lately.  We'd like a way to get
summaries of how much of that is email, and how much of that is going
each way.  I have a script that came with an early release of perl
that does a crude summary of /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog, but it's still
hard to figure out how much of the mail is leaving the system.  (We
have over 5000 entries in the password file, so there's a fair amount
of email within the system.)   (Oh, and we're on a Sequent B8 with
Dynix, which looks a lot like 4.2 BSD with some enhancements.
sendmail and smail and pathalias are what we use, I think.)

And if we can save enough on our phone bill, we can go on the Internet
and never have to worry about anything again ...    8-)   (except disk
space.)

Email or post!  I read all three newsgroups.     Thanks!

later, david        dhawk@well.sf.ca.us
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David Hawkins  System Operator  {apple,pacbell,hplabs,ucbvax}!well!dhawk
Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off. -- Paul Brodeur