> On 11 Sep 2015, at 10:35, John <exim-users-list@???> wrote:
>
> Hello list,
>
> Is there an easy way of measuring the number of emails handled by the server
> per unit time? Per day, week, month, ever.
>
> The server is also an smtp smarthost for a number of other servers so these
> would need to be counted as well as those sent/received locally.
>
> Many thanks,
Hi John,
If you’re looking to take some specific action based on the count, you can use the ratelimit features in the configuration. Actions taken can be all sorts, including writing data to a log file.
If you’re just looking to produce regular reports, you can use eximstats
eximstats [Options] mainlog1 mainlog2 ... > report.txt
eximstats -merge [Options] report.1.txt report.2.txt ... > weekly_report.txt
To suppress everything except counts, use "-ne -nt -nr -t0 -q0 -h0" -ne and -nr remove particularly verbose elements.
Use merge like this, to make weekly reports much more efficient - avoiding the need to parse any log file more than once.
-merge
This option allows eximstats to merge old eximstat reports
together. Eg:
eximstats mainlog.sun > report.sun.txt
eximstats mainlog.mon > report.mon.txt
eximstats mainlog.tue > report.tue.txt
eximstats mainlog.wed > report.web.txt
eximstats mainlog.thu > report.thu.txt
eximstats mainlog.fri > report.fri.txt
eximstats mainlog.sat > report.sat.txt
eximstats -merge report.*.txt > weekly_report.txt
eximstats -merge -html report.*.txt > weekly_report.html
* You can merge text or html reports and output the results as
text or html.
* You can use all the normal eximstat output options, but only
data included in the original reports can be shown!
* When merging reports, some loss of accuracy may occur in the
top n lists. This will be towards the ends of the lists.
* The order of items in the top n lists may vary when the data
volumes round to the same value.
--
Ian Eiloart
Postmaster, University of Sussex
+44 (0) 1273 87-3148
