Re: counting incoming mail

[George Borisov <george@dxsolutions.co.uk>]

Scott Lair wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am using Sarge with Exim4.  I would like to get a count
> of the number of emails coming into the mail server.
> I would like to count emails that were not delivered also.
> In other words, I would like to count any attempts at
> sending an email to my host.
> 
> Ideally, I could get the counts by hour, day,
> week, etc.  Also, it would be great to get the information
> by user of course.  Is there any way to do this?

I use custom scripts for this that are run by the SNMP server.
Cacti generates the graphs by polling the SNMP server every 5
minutes.

There are separate scripts for sent and received mail; as well as
scripts for spam and virus messages.


Hope this helps,

-- 
George Borisov

DXSolutions Ltd