mailstats(1)
NAME
mailstats − print statistics collected by sendmail
SYNOPSIS
mailstats [ −c configfile ] [ −f statisticsfile ] file
DESCRIPTION
The mailstats utility prints out the statistics collected by the sendmail(1M) program on mailer usage. These statistics are collected if the file indicated by the S configuration option of sendmail (defined in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf) exists. The default statistics file is /etc/mail/sendmail.st. mailstats first prints the time that the statistics file was created and the last time it was modified. It will then print a table with one row for each mailer specified in the configuration file. The first column is the mailer number, followed by the total number of messages sent from this mailer. The next two columns refer to the number of messages received by sendmail, and the last two columns refer to messages sent by sendmail. The number of messages and their total size (in 1024 byte units) is given. No numbers are printed if no messages were sent (or received) for any mailer.
You might want to add an entry to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root to reinitialize the statistics file once a night. Copy /dev/null into the statistics file or otherwise truncate it to reset the counters.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
−c configfile Specify a sendmail configuration file.
−f statisticsfile Specify a sendmail statistics file.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of mailstats when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 231 bytes).
FILES
/dev/null zero-lined file
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
default scheduler file used by the cron(1M) daemon
/etc/mail/sendmail.st default sendmail statistics file
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf default sendmail configuration file
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
| Availability | SUNWcsu |
SEE ALSO
cron(1M), sendmail(1M), attributes(5), largefile(5)
DIAGNOSTICS
mailstats: file size changed
the statistics file is 0-length and has not yet been filled with data
NOTES
The mailstats utility should read the configuration file instead of having a hard-wired table mapping mailer numbers to names.
SunOS 5.6 — Last change: 28 Feb 1997