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From: wolf@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Tracking the volume of Mail
Keywords: tracking email mail UUCP record keeping
Message-ID: <1991Jun07.125740.27734@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr>
Date: 7 Jun 91 12:57:40 GMT
References: <18798@megatest.UUCP>
Organization: INSA Departement Informatique, Lyon, France
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In article <18798@megatest.UUCP> rekna@megatest.UUCP (Randy Bias) writes:
>Recently my boss asked me if there was a way to track incoming and outgoing
>mail messages that flow through our mailhost (both through UUCP and internally
>via smtp).  I was wondering if there is an "easy" way to do this, or if any
>programs/scripts have been written to do this.

On some Unixes there is a statistics files that indicates the mail
usage in number of kilobytes & messages.

Mail is accounted as long as the file exist.
Try creating it: touch /usr/lib/sendmail.st, being root.

To check if this is really implemented, search for a file (don't remember
if it's a script or exec) named 'mailstats', not necessarily in the
standard path.

If yes, then probably you'll have stats... I use it on AIX & SysV.

-- 
Christophe Wolfhugel    | Email: wolf@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr
INSA - Dpt Informatique | "Le progres ne vaut que s'il est partage par tous,"
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