[Mailman-Users] Simple statistics

[Crile Carvey]

Thanks to all for your suggestions.  Stephen, thanks for the narrowing questions. Actually, what I was looking for was an easy way to analyze mailman / MTA activity.  But I have since learned that mailman is just not made to be easy ;-). I was hoping there was some basic reporting functionality baked in, but obviously this is not  the case. I did eventually find what I needed by querying the MTA logs.

Crile

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:stephen at xemacs.org] 
Sent: Sunday, October 6, 2013 1:51 AM
To: Crile Carvey
Cc: Mailman-Users at python.org
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Simple statistics

Crile Carvey writes:

 > Is there an easy way for a list admin to check how many messages  > are being sent out for a given list?

The basic answer is "Mailman doesn't keep statistics like that but you can easily compute them from the Mailman and MTA logs."

But why do you want to know?  We need to know because the question as phrased is ambiguous.  You might want to know

- how many posts are received and distributed per time period, or
- how many members are receiving each post, or
- how many times Mailman contacts the local MTA for each post, or
- how many times Mailman contacts the local MTA in a given time period, or
- how many times the local MTA delivers locally plus contacts to
  remote MTAs for each post, or
- how many times the local MTA delivers locally plus contacts to
  remote MTAs in a given time period.

And I'm not sure that's all the useful ways to interpret your request.  But probably not all of them are useful to you (maybe none of them are! :-)

Steve