Sendmail log messages

[John Abreau]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> What I'm looking for is a tool that would make it easier to analyze the
> sendmail logs.  I actually wrote a tool a few years ago to remove elements
> from the mailq based on a search criteria.  What I might want to do is to
> set up a query where I want to see emails send to foo-+RB1Aph5k6s at public.gmane.org between
> Date:time and present, sent by alist-YHpwi2ejnU4 at public.gmane.org Most of the time, when I look
> at the logs, I see that the email has been sent (eg stat=sent) and I can
> tell the recipient that it went to his ISP. With postscript I could
> generally do this using a few greps:
> sudo grep  'to=<some.person at someISP' /var/log/maillog | grep "^Feb 3" |
>  grep "from=<alist-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org'
>
> But, on sendmail, since the to and from are in different log messages, it is
> more difficult.


Attached is a script I wrote a couple years ago to search a maillog file
(or stdin) for all messages from a given envelope address, and
pretty-print them.


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