Besides not writing FB programs, on the ways I keep myself busy is
running a mail server, Eudore Internet Mail Server (EIMS).  A new
version is in beta and one of the people on the list asked for some
administrative information.  The author of EIMS - Glenn Anderson said
"Fine, you do it".  


ps.  Glenn Anderson has got to be at least the equal to Staz in being
on the list and responding politely to multiple stupid questions.


You can get a time restricted version of the beta for no charge. 
Doesn't look like too difficult of a program to write, possible
opportunity to get your name "out there".


Following is some of the messages:

=====> First message

Hi Glenn and co...


Is there any way to see when a user last checked their email? What
would be

nice is to see some sort of stats output, or even when I open up the
user

with EIMS Admin it would be nice to see a few things like


last pop connection

last smpt connection

total mail sent (kbytes)

total mail received (kbytes)


would be great to see this on a per domain basis too, so I could see
which

clients are running up our bandwidth bill etc...


If there are any tools around to do this already, I'd love to know
about

them, otherwise please consider this a feature request :-)


=====>  Response with counter response


>

>The mail log is just a text file so it should not be too hard for
somebody

>to write an application that produces billing information from it.


Yeah right. I didn't even realise EIMS produced a log file. 1.2 didn't
did

it? I thought it chopped off everything past 2k?


Be nice if someone wanted to write an EIMS Log analiser  (hint hint)
:-)


=====>  Final (currently) response from Glenn


>Yeah right. I didn't even realise EIMS produced a log file. 1.2 didn't
did

>it? I thought it chopped off everything past 2k?


AIMS/EIMS 1.x has a mail log, and the limit for both the mail log and
the error log is configurable for all EIMS versions.


>Be nice if someone wanted to write an EIMS Log analiser  (hint hint)
:-)


I am too busy to do it myself, but all that it would need to do is each
time it came across a from entry, add it to a list for the
user that sent it and then add any sent entries with the
same message ID to the total for that user. It is probably necessary to
do a double pass as the from entries don't always come
before tbe sent entries. This is because the mail
processing code doesn't log the from and to
entries until it has finished processing all the recipients for the
message, but the sending code can start sending processed messages
before then.


Glenn.


=====>  And finally, where someone can get the EIMS 2.1b2 program



EIMS 2.1b2 is available from the

<<http://eudora.qualcomm.com/betas/eims21.html> web page. This fixes
all the

bugs in 2.1b1 that I was able to find or reproduce. If you still have
a

problem with 2.1b2 you think is a bug, please report it again.


Glenn.



=====> If someone really wants to do this I could upgrade to the beta
(I am running EIMS 2.0) and give you lots of log entries.

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