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Conference abbott::mailworks-unix

Title:Mailworks-unix
Notice:V2.0.4 now available -- see Note 4.375
Moderator:TAMARA::NEUMAN::Neumann
Created:Wed Jun 02 1993
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1384
Total number of notes:5851

1342.0. "How do I count mail?" by TKOV51::MINEGISHI () Sun Feb 02 1997 22:23

Hellow!

   I would like to know how do I count mail numbers?

   If there is a mail which has 10 destinations, what is number of mail?
        1 ?
       10 ?
       11 ?  (This means 1 originator and 10 destinations)
       others?

   Is there any formal definition of this?  If so, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

Minegishi
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1342.1Not sure what you are asking...KOALA::PAWELKOMon Feb 03 1997 13:1219
Hello Minegishi,

      I'm not sure what "mail numbers" you are trying to count.
Regardless of the number of recipients, only one message is
submitted to the MB400 MTA (X.400 messages) or sendmail 
(SMTP messages).  MB400 or sendmail would then "split" the
message as needed to route it to all destinations.

      If you are talking about counting recipients, the originator
is not included, so if the message is addressed to 10 recipients,
the first recipient would be 1, the second recipient would be 2, etc.

      If this is not what you are asking, please try to better
explain your question.


Regards,

       Mary
1342.2KOALA::ANKANIdle words waste timeMon Feb 03 1997 13:142
In general 11; one copy to your outbox, and 1 copy per "unique"
recipient.
1342.3Backgroud of question.TKOV51::MINEGISHIMon Feb 03 1997 22:5930
Thank you for your quick reply.

The background of this question is how to measure mail system usage.
Usually, mail system is low percentage of cpu usage. The coustomer
where we support want to know some index of thier machine.

This machine is useing only mail system, and running Mailworks at there.
They use all mail has smtp address, then we can count from mail.log in 
syslog.dated. They have special program which is able to count from this 
mail.log. However, there are "from" identification and "to" identification.
They calculate them independent.  Those are ;
       from inside   (from MailWorks)
       from outside  (not from MailWorks)
       to insde      (to inetgrecv)
       to outside.   (not to inetgrecv)
But they have a question that what is total numbers of these.

They want to know some index of their mail system. Each of these value have
some meaning. And total number has system handling capability, I think.
I would like to know some support idea.

If , near future, MailWorks support static function, what kind of function
will be implemented?

Thank you Mary-san.

Regards,

Minegishi