Monitoring Mail server queues is always not an easy job. That too when our servers becomes victims of spammers, it takes hell a lot of job to identify the spammer and block him.
Yesterday I came across this wonderful tool called “Isoqlog“written in C. A turkey software development team at EnderUnix has developed this tool to keep and eye on qmail, postfix, sendmail and exim mail server activities by scanning their logs. This tool generates HTML statistics pages which can be accessed via your web browser. It also produces Top domains output according to Sender, Receiver, Total mails and bytes; it keeps your main domain mail statistics with regard to Days Top Domain, Top Users values for per day, per month and years.
It really made my job easier on a qmail server. Now its your turn to try it on your mail servers.Installation of this tool is very simple. Download the latest tarball from EnderUnix.org and follow the other instructions given below :
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