An attempt at searching postfix logs

A while back I had to do a lot of searching through postfix log files at work. I got tired of having to first, find the original email based on the to and from information, then searching the logs using the various queue id’s as the emails got queued by the mail daemon.

So, I wrote a python script that combined the process and it did the job and saved me a good amount of time. I then got carried away and added color to the output, and got a bit fancy. So I decided to make the script public. It is still not optimal and processing large files ( > 2Gb ) takes longer than I’d like. Hopefully in future iterations I’ll improve the performance.

More info is available on the track_msg page.