Time Machine Email Notifications

Does anyone know of a way, or of a third-party app, to get Time Machine to send email notifications of successful or unsuccessful backups and even better a copy of the backup log.
I realise that for most people this is not a required feature and in the case of Apple philosophy they would think this would over complicate things for their target audience but it would be really hand for support desks who need backup monitoring/reporting.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

moonpup wrote:
After manually browsing through the directories as William stated above, I found the sent mailbox from an earlier backup and copied it to the desktop. From there I just imported it into mail and all is well. I'm still stumped as to why nothing after a certain date shows up in Time Machine though...
Yes, there does seem to be some sort of problem in Mountain Lion with the special handling for Mail, at least in some circumstances.   As you've seen, the data is there (you can also see it via the normal Time Machine interface by looking at the Mail folder via the Finder);  the problem seems to be with the special Mail display only.
Unfortunately, of course, you can't tell what any particular message is from the Finder display;  that's why the special handling using Mail was developed.
At first, I thought this was related to converting from MobileMe to iCloud, as it happened to me about the time I did that, while beta testing Mountain Lion.  I reported it in April, and have received no solution yet. 

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