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Re: extracting IPs from mail log

From: Bill Landry (billlpointshare.com)
Date: Sat Oct 02 2004 - 14:04:01 CDT


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Lynn Frank" <rlfrankparadigm-omega.com>
>
> We've gotten hit by a couple of poop storms where 2000 to 3000 emails
> are sent per hour to spamtrap or old dated addresses.
>
> They come for a boatload of sources and I was thinking it would be handy
> to have a script that extracted the IPs from mail sent to these
> addresses for conversion to an access map.
>
> Anyone know where I might find one before I try to re-invnet the wheel?
> (Google didn't seem to provide anything.)

What about something as simple as:

grep " connect.*example\.com" /var/log/maillog | cut -d "[" -f3 | tr -d "]"
| sort | uniq > access-map

Bill