Hi,
I need figures on the mail activity (whether inbound ir outbound). I have implemented the imslog.pl. Does this output from imslog.pl answer my question:
Message load by day (dequeues):
Date# of dequeues
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16-May-20068813
the # of dequeues is the same as the number of outbound messages (mails that are sent by my mail server)?
How to get the enqueued stats?
thanks,
Hi Linda,
Email statistics are a tricky thing. Before attempting to collate statistics for any kind of reporting you need to strictly define what you wish to collect and how to define an 'email'.
For example, if a single email is destined for 10 addresses, is this 1 email or 10. From a virus-scanning point-of-view it's one email, but from a storage perspective it can be 10 (single message store makes this even more complex) and from a delivery-to-external host it can be 5 (assuming 5 distinct email domains).
For email activity, you can separate this into a few categories (this will also depend on your email infrastructure):
a. Inbound external email (tcp_local enqueue)
b. Inbound internal/external email from internal staff (tcp_submit/tcp_auth enqueue)
c. Inbound internal email (tcp_intranet enqueue)
d. Outbound external email (tcp_local dequeue)
e. Local account delivered email (ims-ms dequeue)
f. Local host delivered email (tcp_intranet dequeue)
These statistics are all currently available in the imslog.pl output.
Hopefully I haven't caused more confusion. I find though for reporting it is best to have these definitions clear from the beginning, especially if you are looking for trends over-time.
Regards,
Shane.
