mailstats(8)

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mailstats(8)
NAME
  mailstats - Displays statistics about mail traffic

SYNOPSIS
  mailstats [-o] [-C cffile [-f stfile]

FLAGS
  -o	    Do not display the name of the mailer in the output.

  -C cffile Use cffile as the name of the sendmail "cf" file instead of
	    /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf.

  -f stfile 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/sendmail/sendmail.st file (or in the file specified with the -f
  flag), 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 example, 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:

  M	    Indicates the position of the mailer in the sendmail.cf file.

  msgsfr    Indicates the number of messages received by the local machine
	    from the indicated mailer.

  bytes_from
	    Indicates the number of bytes in the messages received by the
	    local machine from the indicated mailer.

  msgsto    Indicates the number of messages sent from the local machine
	    using the indicated mailer.

  bytes_to  Indicates the number of bytes in the messages sent from the local
	    machine using the indicated mailer.

  msgsrej   Indicates the number of rejected messages.

  msgsdis   Indicates the number of discarded messages.

  Mailer    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, mailstats will still
  default to var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.st.

FILES
  /usr/sbin/mailstats
	    Specifies the command path

  /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.st
	    Contains system statistics

  /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf
	    Contains configuration information for sendmail

RELATED INFORMATION
  Commands: sendmail(8)
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