mailstats - Displays statistics about mail traffic
mailstats [-o] [-C cffile[-f stfile]]
Do not display the name of the mailer in the output. Use
cffile as the name of the sendmail "cf" file instead of
/var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf. Use stfile as the input
statistics file instead of /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.st.
The mailstats command reads the information in the
/var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.st file (or in the file specified
with the -f option), formats it, and writes it to
standard output. Note also that you can change the location
of the sendmail.st file by editing its pathname in
the sendmail.cf file.
The format of the information is shown in the following
example, in which the first field (M) contains a number
that indicates the position of that mailer in the sendmail.cf
file, starting at 0 (zero). For example, the first
mailer in the sendmail.cf file corresponds to the number 0
in the mailstats display, the second mailer corresponds to
the number 1, and so on.
Statistics from Thu Feb 17 11:20:01 2000 M msgsfr
bytes_from msgsto bytes_to msgsrej msgsdis Mailer 1
50 77K 1 3K 0 0
local 6 43 59K 58 99K 0
0 smtp
============================================================
T 93 136K 59 102K 0
0
The fields in the report have the following meanings:
Indicates the position of the mailer in the sendmail.cf
file. Indicates the number of messages received by the
local machine from the indicated mailer. Indicates the
number of bytes in the messages received by the local
machine from the indicated mailer. Indicates the number
of messages sent from the local machine using the indicated
mailer. Indicates the number of bytes in the messages
sent from the local machine using the indicated
mailer. Indicates the number of rejected messages. Indicates
the number of discarded messages. Indicates the
name of the mailer.
If sendmail transmits mail directly to a file, such as the
dead.letter file or an alias target, the message and byte
counts are credited to the prog mailer, as defined in the
sendmail.cf file. However, mailstats will still default
to var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.st.
Specifies the command path Contains system statistics Contains
configuration information for sendmail
Commands: sendmail(8)
mailstats(8)
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