MAILSTATS(8)

💌 MAILSTATS(8) — mailstats, bestie 💌

okay so this is MAILSTATS(8) from the System Manager's Manual, and it’s literally the group-chat cheat sheet for reading your mail stats. no cap, it’s giving tiny utility, main character energy ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mailstats — display mail statistics

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mailstats [-c] [-o] [-p] [-P] [-C cffile] [-f stfile]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

The mailstats utility displays the current mail statistics. periodt. 💖

First, the time at which statistics started being kept is displayed, in the format specified by ctime(3). Then, the statistics for each mailer are displayed on a single line, each with the following white space separated fields:

• M — the mailer number.
• msgsfr — number of messages from the mailer.
• bytes_from — Kbytes from the mailer.
• msgsto — number of messages to the mailer.
• bytes_to — Kbytes to the mailer.
• msgsrej — number of messages rejected.
• msgsdis — number of messages discarded.
• msgsqur — number of messages quarantined.
• Mailer — the name of the mailer.

After this display, a line totaling the values for all of the mailers is displayed (preceded with a T), separated from the previous information by a line containing only equals (=) characters. Another line preceded with a C lists the number of TCP connections. iykyk 🫶

The options are as follows:

• -C cffile — read the specified file instead of the default sendmail configuration file.
• -c — try to use submit.cf instead of the default sendmail configuration file.
• -f stfile — read the specified statistics file instead of the statistics file specified in the sendmail configuration file.
• -P — output information in program-readable mode without clearing statistics.
• -p — output information in program-readable mode and clear statistics.
• -o — don’t display the name of the mailer in the output.

The mailstats utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. no notes, just vibes 💖

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/mail/sendmail.cf — the default sendmail configuration file.
• /var/log/mail/statistics — the default sendmail statistics file.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

mailq(1), sendmail(8)

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okay that’s the whole page, bestie — MAILSTATS(8), from the System Manager's Manual, with the footer’s source/version date marker $Date: 2013-11-22 20:51:51 $, and it ate 💅✨