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Stats Request

Printed From: LogSat Software
Category: Spam Filter ISP
Forum Name: Spam Filter ISP Support
Forum Description: General support for Spam Filter ISP
URL: https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5455
Printed Date: 13 December 2025 at 1:29am


Topic: Stats Request
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Stats Request
Date Posted: 20 January 2006 at 1:25am

Could it be possible to add some more statistical futures to SF?

 

I know(and do it right now) we can parse log files to get daily /monthly statistics on how many mails sent trough SF and how much% blocked as spam and virus…

 

What I really would like to see is SF logging directly to a DB or a separate statistic-log.file  daily, weekly, monthly statistics?

 

Thanks,

Web




Replies:
Posted By: Desperado
Date Posted: 20 January 2006 at 9:14am

Just my opinion but logging to a database would be one more way to add high load to the server.  I think the flat text files are the most efficient ... if slightly inconvienient. 



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The Desperado
Dan Seligmann.
Work: http://www.mags.net
Personal: http://www.desperado.com



Posted By: pcmatt
Date Posted: 20 January 2006 at 11:30am

Desperado is correct, SpamFilter already does enough and can easily be configured to work a server into the ground.  Parsing logfiles into a database separately, though, is an excellent way to provide auding and unlimited reporting on email SpamFilter traffic.   I have a parsing program available if you are interested.  Spent countless hours on it so, it's not free, but you can try it for free, of course.  I'm about done updating it for the current release.  Register and download eval if you're interested.  Gets more detail on each email processed than any other option, as far as I know.

Latest version supports current SpamFilter build:

http://www.ServerBoss.com/SF2DB - http://www.ServerBoss.com/SF2DB

-Matt



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-Matt R


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 20 January 2006 at 11:42am

My thought was maybe cache the stats in SF, and ones a day write them to DB, but textiles sounds ok as well.

Web



Posted By: Desperado
Date Posted: 20 January 2006 at 11:54am
I use Sawmill to parse the logs and I too have spnet "countless hours" creating a parse "Plugin" that works well.

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The Desperado
Dan Seligmann.
Work: http://www.mags.net
Personal: http://www.desperado.com



Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 20 January 2006 at 2:59pm

Damn, I thought I was the only one that spent "countless hours" writing tools to help with the war on spam. Don't feel quite so bad now about wasting my youth.



Posted By: pcmatt
Date Posted: 20 January 2006 at 3:07pm

Right, and what could be more satisfying than writing code to parse out millions of lines of ever changing text to combine into one record for each email? 

Answer - We couldn't survive without the reports we get from the audit database we build.

-Matt



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-Matt R



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