/var/adm/syslog/mail.x scripts ??

[Kristopher March]

How do you all go about sorting the mess in the mail log files?

I'm working on a script to count the number of e-mails in and out in say a 24 hour period, among other possibilities.

Please provide some additional ideas for me.

[Mark Grant]

We don't get much mail through our servers but you can trim them. Keep the last 500 hundered lines or so and lose the rest.

Counting e-mails in a unix mailbox is quite simple. I once looked at the source of "mail" trying to find how to determine the end of one and the beginning of the next and was surprised to find it used the "Received" field. You need an exact match on this entire field because the word "received" pops up a lot in emails :)

[Dave La Mar]

Kris -
Would
more mail.log | grep 'Nov 5' | grep 'to=' | wc -l
serve your purpose?

Best regards,
dl