Conceptual question about qmail log file

[Joost van Baal]

Hi,

Op ma 31 jul 2006 om 02:29:19 +0100 schreef Marc Gadsdon:
> 
> I have a conceptual question about how to make a qmail log file more 
> easy to read for a human. For instance:
> 
> Imagine a table output of a qmail log file showing a row for each 
> message sent/received, with columns for sender | recipient/s | start 
> time | end time | status.
> 
> The challenge when creating this is to concatenate the relevant lines of 
> the qmail log file/s as there is no GUID available.
> 
> I am wondering what the Lire normalisation and analysis processes might 
> do and whether the resultant DLF would make it easier for us to pull 
> together the above mentioned table? Perhaps if Lire is not the solution, 
> you could mention another off the shelf alternative.

qmail2dlf(1), as shipped with Lire, does something very close to what you
need.

Bye,

Joost

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