Question on imsimta counters -show output

Question

./imsimta version
iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)
libimta.so 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built 18:35:22, Sep 8 2003)
SunOS mailsrv1 5.9 Generic_112233-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
When looking at the "Blocks" column, is that value really bytes and not blocks? The reason I ask is that in the autoreply section, I have the following data:
    Received                     214         214       25356
    Stored                        -3          -3       -1217
    Delivered                    217         217       26573 (217 first time)
    Submitted                    108         108         123
    Attempted                      0           0           0
    Rejected                       0           0           0
    Failed                         0           0           0If I divide 25356 by 214, I get 118. According to the Reference manual the default MTA BLOCK_SIZE is 1024 bytes. Could I get some clarification please? I'm also getting similarly strange numbers for the ims-ms channel. My goal is to get a handle on weekly incoming mail delivered to users' mailboxes, ie the ims-ms channel.
Thanks,
Roger S.

Answer 1

If you're looking for weekly statistics, I would suggest parsing the log files, rather than trying to colledt data from the "counters".
Here's a perl script that will give you more of what you want:
http://ims.balius.com/downloads/imslog.pl
What counters -show shows you is indeed "blocks", by default those are 1k in size, yes. So your average message could be 118k in size. Not unreasonable.