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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:23:03 -0400
From: Drew Derbyshire <software@kew.com>
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Jay Tribick wrote:
> Was just having a look in /var/log the other day and spotted
> a file called sendmail.st, wondering what it was I cat'd it
> and here's what it did:

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MAILSTATS(8)            FreeBSD System Manager's Manual           MAILSTATS(8)

NAME
     mailstats - display mail protocol statistics

SYNOPSIS
     mailstats [-o] [-C sendmail.cf] [-f sendmail.st]

DESCRIPTION
     Mailstats displays mail statistics on a per mailer basis.  Each line of
     output contains the mailer number, the count and byte-count of incoming
     messages, the count and byte-count of outgoing messages, and the name of
     the mailer unless the -o flag is specified.  Common mailers include smtp
     and local (eg: mail.local, the program which handles local delivery of
     mail).

     Statistics are read from the sendmail statistics file sendmail.st, the
     location of which is defined in sendmail.cf, or specified with the -f
     flag.  Mailers are likewise defined in the sendmail.cf file.  Statistics
     are cumulative; zero the statistics file to reset the counters.

FILES
     /etc/sendmail.cf      sendmail configuration file
     /var/log/sendmail.st  sendmail statistics file

SEE ALSO
     mail.local(8),  sendmail(8)


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