mailstats(ADMN)
mailstats --
print statistics collected by sendmail
Syntax
/usr/bin/mailstats [ -C config_file ]
[ -p ] [ -f filename ] [ -o ]
Description
mailstats prints out statistics on mailer
usage as collected by the
sendmail(ADMN)
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 -p option outputs information in program-readable mode and
clears statistics.
The default sendmail configuration file
where mailstats looks for
the ``S'' configuration option setting
is /usr/lib/sendmail.cf.
The -C option allows you to specify a different configuration file.
mailstats first displays the start time for the statistics
in the format of
ctime(S).
The statistics for each mailer are displayed on a single line with
the following fields separated by whitespace:
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.
msgrej-
the number of messages rejected.
msgsdis-
the number of messages discarded.
Mailer-
shows the name of the mailer. The mailer name can be
suppressed using the -o option.
After this display, a line totaling the values for all of the mailers is
displayed (preceeded with a ``T''), separated from the previous
information by a line containing only equals (``='') characters.
Another line preceeded with a ``C'' lists the number of connections.
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 (/usr/lib/sendmail.st)
or otherwise truncate it to reset the counters.
Files
/usr/lib/sendmail.st default statistics file
/usr/lib/sendmail.cf sendmail configuration file
/usr/spool/cron/crontabs/root
/dev/null
See also
sendmail(ADMN),
sendmail.cf(SFF)
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SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 -- 11 February 2003