Re: [Exim] Exim and MRTG

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Author: Christian G. Warden
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim and MRTG
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:14:06PM -0800, Christian G. Warden wrote:
> I've received a few requests for my version of mailgraph for exim.
> Niels Dettenbach has offered to host it, so I'll send a link as soon as
> he gets it up.


Kevin Reed has made it available here:
http://exim.got-there.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=34

> Mailgraph was originally written for Postfix. I added an '--exim' to
> mailgraph.pl that tells it parse Exim's mainlog format rather than
> syslog. I've only tested it on a few of my machines that have fairly
> similar Exim configurations so I can't guarantee it will work for all
> configurations. Most of the parsing code comes from eximstats so
> sent/received statistics should work everywhere I hope. The spam and
> virus stats will only be accurate for messages rejected in the data acl,
> and the log_message must start with "SPAM" or "MALWARE", respectively.
> It could be extended pretty easily to log other reasons for rejection
> that occur in an acl. It already matches "BAD_ATTACHMENT" and
> "MIME_ERROR", which are the log messages I use with Exiscan-acl's
> demime, but doesn't log them to the rrd's. See the process_line_exim()
> subroutine in mailgraph.pl.
>
> I recommend using the deb if possible as it will install an init script
> and setup a config file using debconf.
>
> On one of my machines, I've modified mailgraph.cgi to show Rejected
> and Bounced stats on the same graph as Sent and Received rather than
> with Spam and Viruses. It would nice if this were configurable.
>
> If anyone is interested in taking over maintenance, or better yet,
> working with David Schweikert (dws@???) and Norbert Tretkowski
> (nobse@???) to integrate these changes into the original version
> and the official debian package, that'd be great.