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Install Pflogsumm PostFix Log Summarizer

March 12, 2013 – 9:58 am
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Pflogsumm is yet another log analyzer/summarizer for Postfix. It is written in Perl and has been around for a while. Very simple to install, so I writing this post mostly as a note to myself. I added an example cron job with some “grep” syntax to cut the Pflogsumm report down to size by dropping some things I am usually not interested in.

Installing Sendmail Analyzer on RHEL/CentOS

March 11, 2013 – 11:35 pm
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The Sendmail Analyzer can be useful for visualizing your Sendmail/Postfix log. The commands below can be copy-pasted as root on default installations of RHEL and CentOS 5/6 with default Postfix and httpd. If your configuration …