[Gllug] Analysing Exim logs

[Jasper Wallace]

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On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Simon Wilcox wrote:

> This must surely exist but my Google-fu is failing me :-(
> 
> We run exim and process around 15,000 emails per day. I'm familiar with 
> eximstats and we use this to produce a daily summary report.
> 
> A lot of the mail we send is from e-commerce applications and clients 
> have asked for reports detailing delivery failures originating from 
> specific addresses (e.g. orders at example.com) so that they are forewarned 
> when someone has entered their details incorrectly.
> 
> Does anyone know of a tool that can report by sender, or a tool that 
> understands the exim format and can parse logs into a database for 
> further analysis ?
> 
> I'm looking at building a parser and plonking a reporting tool on the 
> front but I feel sure this must be a solved problem.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a suitable tool ?

you might be better off with sending the emails with a VERP style return 
path (and Errors-To:), and then having any bounces fed to a script that 
can extract the recipents address (or customer id or however you want to 
tag the emails) and reporting that way.

That would be realtime and not rely on periodic log parsing etc.

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