<div>Thanks for the info... I will check sendmail/procmail more to see if i can idenfity anything.</div>
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<div>As far as tools or reports, I was thinking if I could look at the following things I could get a good idea of the status/health of my mailserver/imap server...</div>
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<div>- The number of messages per date range, per user, received, delivered to each user mail box, and undeliverable messages</div>
<div>- The number of messages for unknown users or which had any sort of delivery problem</div>
<div>- Any error messages dovecot might produce communicating with the mta.</div>
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<div>I guess the latter would be in my log files somewhere...I've found log entries identifying the starting/stopping of dovecot, but haven't come across any other messages (which I assume is a good thing and that the system is working just fine... and also because I am getting mail ...:-))
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div><br>Gary Wolff</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/5/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Curtis Maloney</b> <<a href="mailto:cmaloney@cardgate.net">cmaloney@cardgate.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">wolff wrote:<br>> Hello,<br>><br>> I recently installed dovecot on a server running Debian.<br>>
<br>> I only have 10 users, but we probably have 6Gig of email between us.<br><br>We have only about 20 users, and store around 23 to 25G of mail. And that's<br>mostly because I was tyrannical about people keeping their mailboxes lean until
<br>we got a new HDD :)<br><br>> Things were working flawlessly for a couple of weeks, and I'm still getting<br>> email, but the last few days we are getting fewer emails that we typically<br>> do.<br>> So although things seem to be working well, everyone is suspicious something
<br>> is wrong due to the lack of email volume.<br>><br>> Is there a size limit that dovecot can manage?<br><br>That's mostly dependent on your file system, since you're running Maildir. The<br>limits will be on "messages per folder" and "single file size", both of which
<br>you are unlikely to have reached.<br><br>> Are there any admin tools to get status messages for dovecot?<br><br>No, but that's not a bad idea. What sort of features would you be looking for?<br><br>> Are there any reporting tools to show how many messages are
<br>> processed/managed by dovecot?<br><br>Well, there are a few options and patches that make it easier to see how many<br>messages people are reading with Dovecot... but since it's the _ingress_ of mail<br>you're suspecting, I'd be looking at your MTA logs (
<br>sendmail/postfix/qmail/exim/whatever ) -- if the MTA isn't seeing the mail,<br>there's no way Dovecot can, either.<br><br>--<br>Curtis Maloney<br><a href="mailto:cmaloney@cardgate.net">cmaloney@cardgate.net</a><br><br>
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