Field Meaning msgsreg The number of messages (Web design) rejected
Field Meaning msgsreg The number of messages rejected msgsdis The number of messages discarded Mailer The name of the mailer A sample of the output of the mailstats command is shown in Example 18.5. Example 18.5: Sample Output of the mailstats Command # /usr/sbin/mailstats Statistics from Sun Dec 20 22:47:02 1998 M msgsfr bytes_from msgsto bytes_to msgsrej msgsdis Mailer 0 0 0K 19 515K 0 0prog 3 33 545K 0 0K 0 0 local 5 88 972K 139 1018K 0 0 esmtp ============================================================= T 121 1517K 158 1533K 0 0 This data is collected if the StatusFile option is enabled in the sendmail.cf file and the status file exists. Typically you’d add the following to your sendmail.cf file: # status file O StatusFile=/var/log/sendmail.st To restart the statistics collection, you need to make the statistics file zero length: > /var/log/sendmail.st and restart sendmail. hoststat The hoststat command displays information about the status of hosts that sendmail has attempted to deliver mail to. The hoststat command is equivalent to invoking sendmail as: sendmail -bh The output presents each host on a line of its own, and for each the time since delivery was attempted to it, and the status message received at that time. Example 18.6 shows the sort of output you can expect from the hoststat command. Note that most of the results indicate successful delivery. The result for earthlink.net, on the other hand, indicates that delivery was unsuccessful. The status message can sometimes help determine the cause of the failure. In this case, the connection timed out, probably because the host was down or unreachable at the time delivery was attempted. Example 18.6: Sample Output of the oststat Command # hoststat ————–Hostname ———-How long ago ———Results——— mail.telstra.com.au 04:05:41 250 Message accepted for scooter.eye-net.com.au 81+08:32:42 250 OK id=0zTGai-0008S9-0 yarrina.connect.com.a 53+10:46:03 250 LAA09163 Message acce happy.optus.com.au 55+03:34:40 250 Mail accepted mail.zip.com.au 04:05:33 250 RAA23904 Message acce kwanon.research.canon.com.au 44+04:39:10 250 ok 911542267 qp 21186 linux.org.au 83+10:04:11 250 IAA31139 Message acce albert.aapra.org.au 00:00:12 250 VAA21968 Message acce field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au 53+10:46:03 250 ok 910742814 qp 721 copper.fuller.net 65+12:38:00 250 OAA14470 Message acce amsat.org 5+06:49:21 250 UAA07526 Message acce mail.acm.org 53+10:46:17 250 TAA25012 Message acce extmail.bigpond.com 11+04:06:20 250 ok earthlink.net 45+05:41:09 Deferred: Connection time The purgestat command flushes the collected host data and is equivalent to invoking sendmail as: