Webalizer-like statistics for sendmail

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Philip A. Chapman wrote:

>Everyone,
>
>I am looking to find some software that will create usage reports for
>sendmail.  Basic stuff such as the number of messages coming in, going
>out, and who are the heaviest users.  Ideally, it would be easy to
>install and have a graphic representation, like webalizer does for
>apache.
>
>In the failed attempts department, I've tried isoqlog
>(http://www.enderunix.org/isoqlog/) but found that the numbers that it
>reports are very low.  For instance, I subscribe to this list and
>isoqlog only reported me receiving 38 messages yesterday.
>
>On the easy to install end of the spectrum, the sendmail_stats script
>(http://www.reedmedia.net/software/sendmail_stats/) gives what I want,
>but I'd have to write a second script to chop the log up into days since
>the sendmail_stats script does not report by day, but by log file.  I'd
>like to know perl, but don't really have the time to try to learn it now
>just to make this script work for me.  this script doesn't produce the
>pretty charts and graphs that management likes and it treats email
>addresses with mixed case as different users (pchapman at pcsw.us has
>different stats from PChapman at pcsw.us).
>
>On the difficult to install end of the spectrum, it looks like I may be
>able to get mrtg (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/) to
>do it too, but it's an additional feature that can somehow be installed
>and/or configured.  I can't figure out how to set up monitoring of just
>the mail usage.
>
>Can anyone give me any advice on software that meets my needs or how to
>get mrtg to do it?
>  
>
Take a look at Awstats ( http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ ) it is 
supposed to be able to do mail logs..

I haven't used it for mail logs but its farly easy to use for web stats..

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