[exim] Glitch in eximstats?

Eximstats doesn't work if you use syslog for logging.

It reports, "No valid log lines read."

The problem seems to be that syslog puts a timestamp and
hostname/process at the beginning of the line.

Thus, a syslog line looks like this: {freebsd 4.5}

Nov 27 00:20:10 postie exim: 2004-11-27 00:20:10
1CXwsL-000BUI-Cl => kmckay <contacts@???>
R=localuser T=local_delivery

(Above all one line.)

Running the files through cut fixes this.
cut -f 6- -d " " maillog | /opt/exim/bin/eximstats

(With syslog, I can log exim, fetchmail, spamd and popper to
the same file and have it time sequenced. This has helped
me on several occasions.)

I suspect that syslog formats vary from system to system, so
that my hack won't work elsewhere.

The easy option may be to give eximstats a parameter for how
many fields to skip.

The nicest option would be to give it a bit more smarts to
try to find the start of the data it wants.

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Sherwood Botsford
St. John's School of Alberta