Email Statistics

Email Statistics

How to get statistics about the performance of your mail server

Built-In Statistical Reports

Server-Manager

Some email statistics can be seen from server-manager under "Administration", "Mail log file analysis"

qplogsumm.pl

SME 7.2 and later include the 'logterse' plugin to qpsmtpd as well as the 'qplogsumm.pl' statistics script.

qplogsumm.pl updates /var/log/qpsmtpd/state with per-plugin statistics for any qpsmtpd plugin that appears in a qpsmtpd logterse entry each time the qpsmtpd log is rotated.

Sample output here

e-smith-viewlogfiles-1.8.0-4 (released Nov 28 2007) or later will allow you to 'View' /var/log/qpsmtpd/state from 'View log files' in the server-manager (earlier versions conceal all files named "state" - Bug 3416).

Currently, qplogsumm.pl is disabled by default. Enable it with

config setprop qpsmtpd qplogsumm enabled
signal-event email-update

Contribs & Addons

Brian Read's spamfilter-stats-7.pl

Brian Read's mailstats.pl script analyzes your qpsmtpd log files and sends a daily email to "admin" summarizing that day's email activity.

Download & Installation

yum install --enablerepo=smecontribs smeserver-mailstats

Configuration

The latest release (v0.6.20) supports several SME database options:

• Create the service

config set mailstats service

• Status

config setprop mailstats Status ("enabled"|"disabled")

• Column Header entries are created and set to "yes" if a non zero count is detected (they may not exist before). "Yes" means that that column is then always shown. If you delete the entry or set it to "auto" then it will only show if a non zero occurs again (and then get set to "yes").(enable, supress or only show if nonzero)

config setprop mailstats <column header> ("yes"|"no"|"auto")

• QpsmtpCodes

config setprop mailstats QpsmtpdCodes ("enabled"|"disabled")

• SpamAssassin Rules

config setprop mailstats SARules ("enabled"|"disabled")

• JunkMailList

config setprop mailstats JunkMailList  ("enabled"|"disabled")

• SpamAssassin Rule Percent Threshold for report cutoff

config setprop mailstats SARulePercentThreshold (0.5)

• Email to send report

config setprop mailstats Email (admin) - email to send report

• Save data to MySQL database (default is "no")

config setprop mailstats SaveDataToMySQL ("yes"|"no")

• MySQL server hostname (default is "localhost"

config setprop mailstats server <hostname>

• MySQL srver port (default is "3306")

config setprop mailstats DBPort <####>

• Reporting Interval

config setprop mailstats Interval ("day"|"week"|"fortnight"|"month"|"#####"))

Note: a number is interpreted as seconds

• Base

config setprop mailstats Base ("Midnight"|Midday"|"Now"|"##")

Note: a number is interpreted as the hour of the day (0-23)

Handling @*.u Logfiles

Multilog occasionally generates log files that end in ".u" instead of ".s". The multilog manual says this:

• .s: This file is completely processed and safely written to disk.
• .u: This file was being created at the moment of an outage. It may have been truncated. It has not been processed.

The latest version of mailstats.cron will process "@*" and "current", so will catch all log files. Earlier versions only processed "*.s" and "current".

qplogtail

qplogtail is a script intended to help monitor /var/log/qpsmtpd/current and extract a concise but meaningful display of what the server is up to.

qplogtail extracts 5 kinds of information:

1. Normal connections:
   28545 Accepted connection 4/30 from 86.139.2.73 ...
2. Errors in violation of Instances:
   5146 Too many connections: 40 >= 40. Waiting one second.
3. Errors in violation of InstancesPerIP:
   5320 hosts_allow plugin: Too many connections from 212.100.229.201: 6 > 5Denying connection.
4. Messages blocked by any qpsmtpd plugin:
   15751 logging::logterse plugin: ` 82.210.181.241 241-pra-6.acn.waw.pl 241-pra-6.acn.waw.pl <Glasteinzhza@ask-it-here.com> dnsbl 903 http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=82.210.181.241 msg denied before queued
5. Messages queued for delivery:
   15587 logging::logterse plugin: ` 128.220.32.40 miami.deuvis.com miami.deuvis.com <aapple@deuvis.com> <c.wolf@ncxr.org> queued <200709270344.l8R3iq0b010299@deuvis.com> No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0_

Each smtp transaction will generate two lines of output containing:

msgid   remote_ip   x/40
msgid   remote_ip   dispostion   details

Sample output:

# qplogtail
14185   213.37.31.24    dnsbl   msg denied before queued
14262   64.233.184.243  1/40
14262   64.233.184.243  queued  No, hits=-101.1 required=5.0_
14320   71.8.114.81     1/40
14320   71.8.114.81     dnsbl   msg denied before queued
14349   200.63.233.145  1/40
14349   200.63.233.145  dnsbl   msg denied before queued

To install:

cd /usr/local/bin
wget -O qplogtail http://bugs.contribs.org/attachment.cgi?id=1379
chmod 755 qplogtail

To run:

qplogtail

Direct comments or questions to Bugzilla:3418

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