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NAME

mailstats - print statistics collected by sendmail

SYNOPSIS

mailstats [-o] [-c ] [-C configfile] [-f statisticsfile]
[-p] [-P]

DESCRIPTION

The mailstats utility prints out the statistics collected by the
sendmail(8) program on mailer usage. These statistics are collected
if the file indicated by the StatusFile configuration option of
sendmail (defined in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf) exists. The default
statistics file is /etc/mail/statistics.


To enable mailstats, you must, as root, touch /etc/mail/statistics.
See the StatusFile processing option in sendmail(8).


mailstats first prints the time that the statistics file was created
and the last time it was modified. Then, the statistics for each
mailer are displayed on a single line, each with the following
whitespace-separated fields:

M
The mailer number.


msgsfr
Number of messages from the mailer.


bytes_from
Kbytes from the mailer.


msgsto
Number of messages to the mailer.


bytes_to
Kbytes to the mailer.


msgsrej
Number of messages rejected by the mailer.


msgsdis
Number of messages discarded by the mailer.


msgsqur
Number of messages quarantined by the mailer.


Mailer
The name of the mailer.


The display of statistics described above is followed by a separation
line containing only equal sign (=) characters. After the separation
line, a line preceded with a "T" and totaling the values for all of
the mailers is displayed. This is followed by another line preceded
with a "C" that lists the number of TCP connections.


To reinitialize the statistics file once a night, add an entry to
root's crontab(1):

mailstats -p > /dev/null

OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

-c
Try to use submit.cf instead of the default
sendmail configuration file.


-C configfile
Specify a sendmail configuration file.


-f statisticsfile
Specify a sendmail statistics file.


-o
Do not display the name of the mailer in the
output.


-p
Output information in program-readable mode and
clear statistics.


-P
Output information in program-readable mode
without clearing statistics.

USAGE

See largefile(7) for the description of the behavior of mailstats
when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31
bytes).

FILES

/dev/null
Zero-lined file


/etc/mail/statistics
Default sendmail statistics file


/etc/mail/sendmail.cf
Default sendmail configuration file

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


+-----------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------+-----------------+
|Output Stability | Unstable |
+-----------------+-----------------+

SEE ALSO

crontab(1), attributes(7), largefile(7), cron(8), sendmail(8)

June 24, 2004 MAILSTATS(1)