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Asked: 2011-09-21 13:19:03 +0800 CST

Counting number of messages sent by sendmail

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Does anyone know of a utility of that would give me the total number of email messages sent by sendmail, using old maillogs ?

Someone suggested the use of the mailstats utility, however this program seems to give the statistical information for all mail log file entries. Though this is beneficial, it's not helpful on this case since a single mail message sent by sendmail can log anywhere to 5 different log entries.

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2 Answers

  1. Does grep 'Message accepted for delivery' /var/log/maillog| wc -l provide the number you need?

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  2. You can use grep -c to count the number of matching lines instead of pipe grep to wc -l:

    grep -c "Message accepted for delivery" /var/log/maillog
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