[Dovecot] Logging Options

Asheesh Laroia asheesh at asheesh.org
Fri Mar 7 01:59:35 EET 2008


On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Steffen Ille wrote:

> Dear Listmembers,
>
> I tried to figure out how to get statistics not only about the amount of 
> mails which where sent from / to my mailusers, but also about the size 
> in byte (e.g. to compare with other traffic stats) for each of my users. 
> postfix shows me the size of sent mails per user, but afaik I cannot get 
> the size of rcvd mails per user with it. I use the dovecot LDA with 
> postfix and in this lda - logfiles I also cannot see a byte-like size of 
> delivered mails. Is there any possibility get such statistics working?

I actually deliver to Dovecot via procmail, which if you enable its log 
option will store byte sizes.

Also Postfix may be involved in inbound mail, in which case its logs would 
be of use also.

-- Asheesh.

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