Re: Postfix service filter

Tom Metro wrote:
> --------------------- postfix Begin ------------------------
> 
>   Error writing queue file:
>      No space left on device : 36999 Time(s)
> 
> 
>   Top ten local senders:
>      36995 messages sent by:
>         root (uid=0):
> 
>   [...]
>   ---------------------- postfix End -------------------------
> 
> 
> The first section indicates there were 36999 failed delivery attempts, 
> and yet the second section suggests there were 36995 messages 
> successfully sent by user root.
> 
> In actuality there were only about 40 messages, a couple of which were 
> successfully delivered, and the rest deferred due to disk space limits.
> 
> It seems it would be better when calculating "Top ten local senders" to 
> count messages - or at least successful deliveries - rather than 
> delivery attempts.
> 
> 
> Also, the next day the report said:
> 
>   210925808 bytes transferred
>   78 messages sent
>   78 messages removed from queue
> 
>   Top ten local senders:
>      39 messages sent by:
>         root (uid=0):
> 
> and I'm wondering why there wasn't a report of bytes transferred and 
> messages sent in the previous report, given that a few messages were 
> successfully delivered. In fact that section is absent from all reports 
> I see except for this one. I wonder why. (While resolving the disk space 
> issue, I temporarily removed the files from Postfix's queue, and then 
> replaced them the next day. When those files were processed, it may have 
> produced different log entries. But it looks like a bug to me that such 
> information is reported under those conditions and not under normal 
> delivery conditions.)
> 
> The above is with Postfix version 2.3.8-2+b1 on Debian Etch.

Tom,

This version of the postfix filter, and apparently your logwatch, is 
very old and obsoleted.  Please be sure to update logwatch, which will 
include a much more recent version of the postfix filter.

The latest filter postfix (and amavis) is available at:

http://www.mikecappella.com/logwatch

MrC