Milter-greylist

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 23:13 -0700, Michael Wallendahl wrote:
> Has anyone already written a script to parse Sendmail's maillog file and 
> display some detailed statistics about milter-greylist actions?  I 
> thought I'd ask on the list before I try a crack at it.
> 
> Statistics like:
> 
> * Local users and their rejected message count so I can give them a 
> report stating how many messages were blocked by the filter.
> * Average delay time for accepted e-mail per user and per sending ip (to 
> more easily find domains with badly behaving or multiple outbound mailers)
> * Total count of rejected messages per IP to help identify high volume 
> spammers.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 

This would be a good one to submit to the logwatch folks at
http://www.logwatch.org/

I did some quick mods/patches/changes to logwatch to parse the milter-
greylist lines. Just a simple rejects list to each mailbox. Gives an
idea how many spammers try to spam a mailbox. One can see some
interesting trends over the months.

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