GRAPHDEFANG(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to GRAPHDEFANG(1) 💖 — she's an application for generating graphs from mimedefang log files. yes, she makes pretty pictures out of your logs. obsessed. 📊✨

(this one lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation, section 1, if you were wondering where she came from 🫶)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

graphdefang.pl [options]

and here's the whole menu of options, no gatekeeping:

--help            brief help message
--man             full documentation
--quiet           quiet output
--nodb            do not update SummaryDB
--trim            trim the SummaryDB
--nomax           ignore the max date/time in SummaryDB
--file            optional log file to parse

and here's the tea ☕ — if you call her with no options at all, graphdefang.pl will parse the logfile exactly as defined by the $DATAFILE variable. she just does it. no questions asked. 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --help — prints a lil brief help message and then dips out. short and sweet, main character behavior 👑
• --man — prints the full manual page and exits. that's this whole thing you're reading rn bestie 😭
• --quiet — do not produce status output from mimedefang.pl. she goes silent mode, stealth mode, quiet luxury ✨
• --nodb — do not use nor update the SummaryDB. she'll literally just parse the file and draw graphs from it. like, that's the whole job 🦋
• --trim — trim the SummaryDB to cut out old data. and bestie, she trims aggressively. she cuts out:
  1. hourly data older than 1.25x$NUM_HOURS_SUMMARY hours
  2. daily data older than 1.25x$NUM_DAYS_SUMMARY days
  3. all but top 25 sender, recipient, value1, value2, subject values for all dates prior to the current hour, day, and month..
• --nomax — ignore the max date/time in the SummaryDB; add all lines from the parsed file to the database. no cap, every single one 🫡
• --file — optional log file to parse. if this option is not set, graphdefang will use the $DATAFILE variable instead. she's got a default, she's prepared 💜

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

graphdefang.pl will read a file that contains syslog messages from mimedefang, update its internal summary database, and produce graphs as requested by the user. that's it. that's the vibe. read → update → graph. iconic behavior, honestly 🌈⭐

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⚠️ heads up bestie: --trim genuinely deletes old data from your SummaryDB, and --nomax genuinely dumps everything in. know what you're asking for before you ask 💀

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and that's the whole page fr fr 💖 this beauty comes to you courtesy of perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-20 🎀✨ slay, go make some graphs, ily 🫶🌸