From: mouss (moussml.netoyen.net)
Date: Tue Oct 19 2010 - 15:55:23 CDT

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  Le 19/10/2010 11:41, Dom Latter a écrit :
> Helo, as one might say.
>
> Wading through logfiles to find a particular email has been
> taking up too much of my time recently [1].
>
> I have written a logfile condenser that takes a postfix log and
> generates a single line per email, with (for example) timestamp,
> ham /spam, sender, recipient, spam score, size.
>
> Thus, for example, a 25000 line logfile (about 4MB) is condensed
> into 800 lines; grepping for " ham " pulls out 200 lines of
> actual delivered emails. It's reasonably fast (less than a second
> to do the condensing on a modern-ish box).
>
> I wrote my own because none of the existing logfile tools did
> quite what I want. The closest seemed to be this:
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/postfix2dlf.1.html
>
> The question is - is there any community interest in this tool?
>
> As something hacked up for my own purposes it is most definitely
> beta code. But if there's interest I could tidy it up and
> release it.
>
> It will probably upset the purists for two reasons: it's written
> in PHP [1] because that was going to be quickest for me; and it doesn't
> use regexps, but rather a lot of substr()s to get the information
> out.
>
> If there's something better out there, please say.
>
> [0] From the example stats - that's more than 100 lines of logfile
> per "actual" email.
> [1] It's still a command line tool.

what I'd like to see is "requirements/needs". that is: what do people need?

once we get that, the implementation is trivial.

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