mailstats(8)mailstats(8)NAMEmailstats - Displays statistics about mail traffic
SYNOPSISmailstats [-o] [-C cffile[-f stfile]]
OPTIONS
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/send‐
mail.cf. Use stfile as the input statistics file instead of
/var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.st.
DESCRIPTION
The mailstats command reads the information in the /var/adm/send‐
mail/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.
EXAMPLES
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 exam‐
ple, 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. Indi‐
cates 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, mail‐
stats will still default to var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.st.
FILES
Specifies the command path Contains system statistics Contains configu‐
ration information for sendmail
SEE ALSO
Commands: sendmail(8)mailstats(8)