Hi, I'm wondering about the same thing.
A product called splunk that has a free version claims to do just what you describe: http://www.splunk.com/solutions/273 I have it installed and running on a machine without qmail-toaster, and it works as advertised very well. Basically you just add data points to it and it will start indexing the data for you: /opt/splunk/bin/splunk add tail /var/log/maillog But I'm not sure how/where to find the relevant logs created by the install of qmail-toaster. Perhaps if someone could identify the logs for us then I'll set up splunk on my qmail-toaster dev machine and then I'll put up on the wiki instructions for tracing an email through the system. Thanks, Todd W. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Shupert, Jr. To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 10:06 AM Subject: Fw: [qmailtoaster] The path and life of a mail maybe i asked in a wrong way. But , if someone could give me any info at all about how an item of mail moves through a server, both in and out and eventually disappears. That would be wonderful. thanks much. jim s ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Shupert, Jr. To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:05 AM Subject: [qmailtoaster] The path and life of a mail Friends, Could someone tell me where / how a individual piece of mail might travel into and out of my qmailToaster email server. incoming and outgoing. I know that there is home/vpopmail/domains/theppsgroup/"NAME"/maildir/new and current ( curr ) what i would like to know are the stops & hops that happen ( que & simscan ) And in reagrds to simscan is it ClamAV first and Then SpamAssassin or both at once? when I send email from my dsktop ...where does it immediately go in the server ? Util it ultimately then gets 'delivered' to the destination server. Isn't it then "Gone"? and when someone sends something to my account ...it comes in where and how does it travel? simsan and the like. I have done some poking and testing... But would love to hear the whole 1-2-3 from someone who really knows. thanks much jim
