[Mailman-Developers] MailMan-Traffic

[J C Lawrence]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:26:11 +0200 
h huelsebusch <Henning> wrote:

> Hi !  Is it possible that you insert Traffic-Accounting in Mailman ?
> Don't know, but I think it's not so difficult, Mailman has to do
> something like "(MailSize) * (actually members of the list)", stored
> in a PLAIN-textfile, so it will also be possible to parse the total
> traffic, monthly oder daily traffic.

Several points:

  Mailman does not store the membership list in a text file.  Further,
  under 2.1 Mailman may not store the membership list at all, but
  depending on local configuration may only have the ability to query
  (LDAP, SQL, whatever) an external service for the membership to apply
  to a specific message.

  Outbound traffic in a bandwidth sense is not a product of number of
  list members times size of message.  That ignores bounces, RCPT TO
  bundling, and remote exploders (many companies subscribe a central
  account to popular lists and then explode that account to all internal
  interested parties and/or gate it to an internal newsgroup).

  All the data you seem to want is currently available from both the
  Mailman logs and your MTA logs.  You just have to take it out and
  parse it.

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