mailgraph is a good tool at analysing mail server log, it supports many MTA(including sendmail, postfix, exim,etc.), with support for mailscanner,spamassassin,etc. As a whole, mailgraph can tell mail server statistics like how many messages sent/ received/ bounced/ rejected/ virus/ spam per time interval, which can be used as a sign of mail server healthy. This …
Tag Archive: server monitoring
Dec 14
Monitoring email server with Cacti
Inspired by a Cacti forum post, and bothered by the bug/fault the existing solution contains. I decide to write a new tempalte for this task. This template use mailgraph to gather MTA mail statistics counter, then export them to other host via SNMP. Cacti then poll the statistics info from SNMP, graph it out using …