[Mailman-Users] Reporting

[Tom Ray [Lists]]

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Tom Ray [Lists] wrote:
>   
>> According to the report one list has 14,297 posts but according to the 
>> Post Count by Sender report 13,797 of those posts came from 
>> listname-request at . So does that mean that only 500 posts were made by 
>> members or are those 13,797 more then just commands from the members? I 
>> would appreciate a better explanation on that.
>>     
>
>
> This is a bug in Mailman pre 2.1.7 that logged the envelope sender of
> the outgoing message instead of the incoming message.
>
>   
So I'm sure I'm understanding you correctly then  that some of those 
message could be valid posts made by members since this list was around 
since 2.1.4 or so?
>   
>> Also, under the Hourly Summary of Message Sent report from the smtp log. 
>> The totals are based on how many email addresses the message was sent 
>> to, correct? So if a list has 250 members it counts each message per 
>> member? I know that it bundles the message per connection so a single 
>> SMTP connect could have 100 messages in it. I just want to make sure.
>>     
>
>
> Yes, you are correct. This comes from the smtp log and is the total
> number of recipients which depending on mm_cfg settings could be one
> smtp connection per recipient or a single smtp connection with a few
> smtp transactions with hundreds of recipients per transaction, or
> something in between. But the number is always the total recipients.
>
>
>   
>> The problem is that my email server is being beaten in to the ground and 
>> it looks like this clients lists (they have 8 or so) are seeing a heavy 
>> increase in membership and frequency. I need to put numbers together so 
>> I can tell them they need to either get a dedicated list server or pay 
>> more (so I can upgrade!).
>>
>> Any help would be great. I'm just a bit ignorant on the internal 
>> workings of MM but am learning. Plus I don't know Python from a hole in 
>> the ground so I'm leery about messing with code to much.
>>     
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> The mmdsr report gives you post count per list and by sender, but due
> to the mailman bug in 2.1.6 and earlier, these are usually the same
> since the sender is list-bounces.
>
> It also gives the hourly summary of posts and of messages sent, the
> latter of which is really the number of recipients, not the number of
> smtp transactions or smtp connects.
>
> It does not give you messages sent by list. In order to get that, you
> need to look at the 'post' log to get the list and from information
> and the message-id and then get the corresponding message-id entry
> from the smtp log to get the number of recipients.
>
>   
Thanks for the information. I'm tearing apart the post log because I 
want to get the total size of the message. Then I need to figure out how 
many emails where sent so I can figure out bandwidth usage. I mean if 
they send a 10K file to a list with 1,000 members that's a lot of 
bandwidth to send out.