multiple queue's in one sendmail log (was: Re: informations about sendmail logfiles)

[Arnaud Taddei]

Dominique Bogaerts wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> 1) We split already our sendmail. 2 sendmail for incoming mails ( one 
> from Internet - one from inside ) with 2 differents queue and binding 
> to differents ip address and one to send e-mail.
> ex:
> sendmail-public : bind to public ip adress => sent to antivirus ( bind 
> to localhost and a different port than 25 ) => sent to another 
> sendmail who send the e-mail after scanning ( bind to localhost and a 
> different port than 25 and the antivirus )
>
> to resume : sendmail-public:25 => antivirus-localhost:XXX => 
> sendmail-out-localhost:YYY
>
> then we have already your first advise
>
> note that the antivirus log is not going via syslog.
>
> We put also a different name for the MTA ( DaemonPortOptions ). 

Cool

>
>
> 2) We put just one version of sendmail  ( 1 compilation ) and run 3 
> daemon from this sendmail. Ok, I know, it's little bit complicated and 
> maybe not a good way but, it's historical :-)).
>
> So, recompile, now, it's not possible.
>
> And for 2003, we are busy, now, to re-organize the SMTP gateway and 
> maybe change sendmail to postfix, so, we are going to keep in mind the 
> log "problem" : -).
>
> So, thank you everybody for your cooperation, your help and your free 
> consulting. 

Ok I see the problem in getting sendmail recompiled. Still indeed it 
should be reviewed the LOG_MAIL symbol I think if you decide to stick on 
sendmail. There are of course plenty of alternatives to postfix.

A++

>
>
> Just for information and maybe a little improvement for Lire. We can 
> analyze log, ok. We can merge reports, ok. But is that possible to and 
> a summary page for all logs?
> We have +- 15Mg/day of logfile. After 1 month, we must merge more than 
> 300 Mg. You can imagine to have a summary for 1 year if we merge all 
> of this.
> Is that possible to have ( ex in html ) a front-end page with some 
> informations summarized ( total mails/per month - total bytes/per 
> month ) and hyperlinks into it for statistics day-to-day of per month 
> ( maybe better ). Also, if we analyze in pdf or rtf, a summary, it can 
> be good.
>
> Of course, it's just a suggestion.
>
> have a nice day
>
> Dominique
>
> P.S: J'habite bruxelles et y travaille ( d'Ieteren, importateur de 
> voitures ). Je me posais justement la question en lisant le prénom, 
> arnaud, cela n'a pas vraiment l'air anglais :-), joost, non  plus 
> d'ailleurs mais c'est assez amusant. J'ai même hésité à repondre en 
> français, plus façile pour se faire comprendre à la vue de mon anglais 
> :-). Ce sont seulement tes grands-parents qui sont belges?
>
> Arnaud Taddei wrote:



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