Re: [PLUG] sendmail logs?

["Jesse Schultz" <schultj@netaxs.com>]

Be careful, grabbing the subject line is borderline snooping.  Some might
not like it.  It would be legal for your company to do it, but if you do it
without being forced to and the company get's static, there may be a lot of
fingers pointing your way.

You may find yourself accidentally evil sysadmin.


----- Original Message -----
From: "kevin mudrick" <kevin@furhurts.com>
To: "PLUG" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] sendmail logs?


>
> > Sendmail doesn't really care about the message body. The body is
> > irrelevant. You could possibly write a milter script to do something.
> > Check out www.milter.org. What is it you're trying to do?
>
> Hmm, I'm not sure if milter is what I need.  What I'm trying to do is,
> more-or-less, after-the-fact.
>
> Basically, a large volume of emails get sent out here to customers here at
> my company.  I'd like to compile small reports of what emails aren't
> making it through.  If, in a given month, 100 messages get bounced, it'd
> be neater to have a little report of the customer name/email/subject line,
> rather than depend on employees in customer service (the "sender", or
> rather the address of the sender) to take the bouncebacks and put them in
> some sort of database/spreadsheet, manually.
>
> I can parse the maillog file to see the addresses of failed messages, but
> i'd like to be able to sort, say, failed order confirmation emails versus
> failed subscription renewal notifications.  I figured grouping by message
> subject line would be a good way to go about that.. but as I look, it
> doesn't seem like I have access to that sort of information.
>
> -Kevin
>
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