doing email traffic accounting (was: Re: email)

[Joost van Baal]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:36:22PM +0300, ÷ÉÔÁÌÉÊ wrote:
> 
> i'm trying to configure email accounting.
> i have three different kind of users: foreign users, local users (free traffic), and inet users (traffic for pay); and two kind of nets: local and inet. i'm trying to calculate byte-traffic of users by following rules:
> 1.if recipient is own user - pay-traffic comes to the user.
> 2.if recipient is an foreign user - pay-traffic comes to the sender.
> 3.pay-traffic comes from localnet and from inet should be in different records (because of difference in cost). kind of net should be determine by ip (!).
> (optional 4.if recipient and sender are foreign users i should be alerted)
> 
> how to configure this? what options and rules should i use?

This depends on how you differ your three kind of users.  By client IP?
By envelope From email address?

In first case, you could do with tcp/ip traffic logging.  In second
case, parsing the email log seems the way to go.

Bye,

Joost

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