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Version 5.1 by christoph_lechleitner@iteg_at on 2012-07-17 09.46:41
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1 MLP (Mail.Log-Parsing) is a script and soon-to-be script collection to make it easier to extract useful information from {{code language="none"}}/var/log/mail.log{{/code}} as produced by postfix setups like our Mailhaus.at.
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3 Tracing emails with only grep is difficult because the major properties of a single mail, like sender, recipient, and message-id, usually are distributed over multiple lines.
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5 ##**mlp-findmails**## makes this task a one-liner. and extended it quite a lot.
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7 Some core parsing lines are based on [[http:~~/~~/www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=444335>>url:http://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=444335||shape="rect"]] but I have built lots of new functions and options around them.
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9 ##**mlp-findlogins**## allows helps to i.e. trace typos of user who "can not get my mail and have not make a typo".
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12 All commands understand {{code language="none"}}--version{{/code}} and {{code language="none"}}--help{{/code}}.
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17 ==== {{id name="Mail.Log-ParserHome-Download"/}}Download ====
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19 mlp is of course available via our [[debian repository deb.clazzes.org>>url:http://deb.clazzes.org||shape="rect"]].