postfix-collate(1)

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version 3.11.7 · 12 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

postfix-collate — the little script that untangles your Postfix logfile for you 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay bestie, so picture this: your Postfix log is a whole mess of interleaved lines and it's giving chaos. This script — written by Viktor Dukhovni, king behavior honestly 👑 — untangles that logfile and groups the records one "session" at a time, figuring out which lines belong together based on queue ID and process ID information. No cap.

It lives at auxiliary/collate/collate.pl in the source tree, in case you wanted to go read it and feel something 🫶

Records from different sessions get separated by an empty line ✨ Which is lowkey the best part, because that means the output is stupid easy to process downstream:

  • in perl, just set $/="" 🔥
  • in awk, just set RS="" 🔥

Paragraph mode, periodt. That's the whole vibe.

💅 USAGE 💅

postfix-collate file...

You hand it files, it collates them, you live your life 🌸

And when you don't specify any file at all? It reads from standard input instead, because of course it does, main character energy. Feed it a pipe, feed it a redirect, it's not picky 💜

fr fr, that's the entire page — tiny script, huge slay. Go forth and collate 🦋

🎀 SIGN-OFF 🎀

This one shipped with postfix-3.11.7, dated 16 September 2026. Byeeee, drink some water, and may your sessions always be separated by exactly one empty line ✨💖🎀

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