collectd-email(5)

The system statistics collection daemon

NAME

collectd-email - Documentation of collectd’s email plugin

SYNOPSIS

# See collectd.conf(5)
LoadPlugin email
# ...
<Plugin email>
  SocketGroup "collectd"
  SocketPerms "0770"
  MaxConns 5
</Plugin>

DESCRIPTION

The email plugin opens an UNIX-socket over which one can submit email statistics, such as the number of “ham”, “spam”, “virus”, etc. mails received/handled, spam scores and matched spam checks.

This plugin is intended to be used with the Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Collectd SpamAssassin-plugin which is included in contrib/, but is of course not limited to that use.

OPERATION

This plugin collects data indirectly by providing a UNIX-socket that external programs can connect to. A simple line based protocol is used to communicate with the plugin:

  • E-Mail type (e.g. “ham”, “spam”, “virus”, …) and size (bytes):

      e:<type>:<size>

    If size is less than or equal to zero, size is ignored.

  • Spam score:

      s:<value>

  • Successful spam checks (e.g. “BAYES_99”, “SUBJECT_DRUG_GAP_C”, …):

      c:<type1>[,<type2>,...]

    Each line is limited to 256 characters (including the newline character). Longer lines will be ignored.

SEE ALSO

collectd(1), collectd.conf(5)

AUTHOR

The email plugin has been written by Sebastian Harl <sh at tokkee.org>.

The SpamAssassin-plugin has been written by Alexander Wirt <formorer at formorer.de>.

This manpage has been written by Florian Forster <octo at collectd.org>.