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Is there any way to monitor email traffic? I need to know if some user is send large volume of emails.

Thanks,
Jian

Chapter 22 of the Administration Guide gives you details on how to configure auditing and what information is logged.

Cheers

Dave

I need to monitor the email traffic at real time, and send alerts out for unusual circumstances. Any way to do this in Scalix? Or some way in sendmail?

Thanks,
Jian

I can't think of a way that doesn't require extra development/software.

You can write a perl script that scans the sendmail logs and/or the Scalix audit file for new messages and alert on any anomalies/big messages/etc. I've written something like this for archiving purposes (store the audit log info in a DB backend) and haven't found it very hard.

mrtg is used for that. Besides producing pretty stats, it can be used for alerting as well.

You can set alerts in mrtg.cfg - this is beyond free support however. Please google for http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&q=mr ... -Suche&lr=

Another tool is Big Brother. http://www.bb4.org/

Cheers,

Sascha.

Another software that does monitoring is cacti which leverages the power of RRDTool. Provides a wide range of graphs, not just bandwidth (for example, disk usage).