Re: [cobalt-users] Maybe OT - easier way to manage mailboxes and maillog

["Edward Bishop" <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to everyone who replied. Using mail or pine has given me what I
wanted on the mailboxes.

Regarding the maillog, what I am missing from Webmin is the ability to view
the whole file without wrapping lines (you have to scroll sideways of
course, but I think it's much easier to scan the file looking for anomalies
or something specific) and to view, for example, the last 200 lines only...
I don't need statistical analysis at the moment, just a more convenient way
to view it. The command line editors seem a lot of hard work.

Maybe I need to try to write a Perl script to copy the whole maillog into a
.htm file somewhere, which I can then view with a web browser.

PS in answer to Rod's question, yes, I am reading other people's mail, but
it's only work stuff - I have told them all clearly not to use this server
for anything personal. But if I do see anything juicy, rest assured I'll
post it here.

Eddie

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Werby <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Maybe OT - easier way to manage mailboxes and
maillog


> "Edward Bishop" <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend commands or software to make it easier to (1) view
> the
> > contents of a user's mailbox and read or delete messages
>
> How about "pine" which is on the server by default or a webmail program
like
> squirrelmail?
>
> > and (2) format maillog to be more readable?
>
> Can you clarify what you want?  mreport (find it on freshmeat) is a
program
> that generates stats based on maillog which I've been using for a few
years.
> I don't know if there's anything open source, but it would be fairly easy
to
> build a program to slurp through maillog and store it in a database whose
> data could then be manipulated using a scripting language to build
whatever
> user-friendly output (and reports) you want.  I could build one, but don't
> have a need so unfortunately couldn't do for free.
>
> --
> Steve Werby
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