mailstats(1)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | USAGE | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | DIAGNOSTICS

NAME

mailstats- print statistics collected by sendmail

SYNOPSIS

mailstats [-o] [-c configfile] [-f statisticsfile] file

DESCRIPTION

The mailstats utility prints out the statistics collected by the sendmail(1M) program on mailer usage. These statistics are collected if the file indicated by the S configuration option of sendmail (defined in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf) exists. The default statistics file is /etc/mail/sendmail.st.

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.

Mailer

The name of the mailer.

After this display, a line totaling the values for all of the mailers is displayed, separated from the previous information by a line containing only equal sign (=) characters.

You might want to add an entry to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root to reinitialize the statistics file once a night. Copy /dev/null into the statistics file or otherwise truncate it to reset the counters.

OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

-c configfile

Specifies a sendmail configuration file.

-f statisticsfile

Specifies a sendmail statistics file.

-o

Don't display the name of the mailer in the output.

USAGE

See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of mailstats when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2³¹ bytes).

FILES

/dev/null

zero-lined file

/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root

default scheduler file used by the cron(1M) daemon

/etc/mail/sendmail.st

default sendmail statistics file

/etc/mail/sendmail.cf

default sendmail configuration file

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWsndmu

SEE ALSO

cron(1M), sendmail(1M), attributes(5), largefile(5)

DIAGNOSTICS

mailstats: file size changed

the statistics file is 0-length and has not yet been filled with data

SunOS 5.8  Last Revised 21 Dec 1998

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | USAGE | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | DIAGNOSTICS