Current version

The current release of PMDF Statistics is 3.1-10. To find out what version you currently have click here.

PMDF Statistics Software Product Description

PMDF-Stats is a program which analyzes the MAIL.LOG produced by PMDF to give a report of traffic flow between specified groups of domains. PMDF-Stats can also be used to filter records in MAIL.LOG producing similarly formatted output (in much the same way as ACCOUNTING/BINARY filters VMS accounting records). Filtering (using wildcards) can be done on any of the fields in the MAIL.LOG record.

The postmaster defines which domains belong to which group in a Group Definition file, and PMDF-Stats produces a matrix giving the number and overall volume of messages passing between each group. It can also produce the following report types:

Summary Report showing the total number and volume of messages into and out of each group.
Per-mailbox statistics, listing the total number and volume of messages sent and received by each mailbox within a domain group.
Site reports - a separate report file for each group, which can be made available to site administrators.
Transit statistics report, giving the time taken for messages to be processed.
Analysis of fax messages sent using PMDF-Fax.

Version 3.1 has the following improvements:

Additional report types as described above.
new /ADDRESS qualifier which will match an address in either the sending or receiving fields.
Volumes are now reported in floating point format in MB, as previously large traffic volumes could generate integer overflows in the report file.
New /SKIP_CHANNEL qualifier allows for filtering out of records due to intermediate channels.
Support for OpenVMS IA64
All bug fixes to 3.0-10