Hi,
Is there a way, or a program out there, that will
give me statistics on email? Something that will
tell me things like #of emails rec'd per user,
amount of bandwidth consumed etc. etc.?
I apologize in advance if this is some sort of FAQ.
-Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Metheringham" <Nigel.Metheringham@???>
To: "Mark The Administrator" <root@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Piping in EXIM...
>
> root@??? said:
> > Okay this is what i'm trying to do. I have built a 'pipe' transport in
> > Exim that calls a perl script as a command. In the perl script there
> > is come code that manipulates the mail file directly and then opens a
> > socket to one of two availabe remote machines running a Visual Basic
> > Socket Server.
>
> You don't get the mail data in a pipe transport as a file - it comes in
> on stdin.
>
> > However, calling the script from Exim seems to shut down all IO. The
> > logs are not logged and the socket fails to TX to the Server. After
> > reading the docs on Exim i found that Exim opens it's own socket to
> > the script! Am i reading this correctly? If so is it possible to stop
> > Exim 'sucking' all the IO from the script back to itself via this
> > pipe.
>
> Is the script ever being run - standard mistake is not setting
> user/group permissions on the exim director/transport. Check your exim
> logs for hints.
>
> What user should exim run this script as?
> Have you checked that that user id can run the script (permissions), or
> that the script works when run from that user id (other permissions).
> Does your script expect things to be set in the environment - like the
> path?
> Does you script run as /path/to/script as opposed to "perl
> /path/to/script"?
> Does perl -cw script give you any output?
> Does your script work with taint checks on? [unlikely to be the
> problem]
>
> after all that... is there any useful debugging information or should I
> continue guessing :-)
>
> Nigel.
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