Just came across maillog, which looks very cool. From TFM:
Maillog is a powerful tool for selecting and formatting entries from a
sendmail or postfix log. When a message is selected, it collects all
the mailer entries related to that message's queue id and formats them
in a more readable fashion. By default, the log fields that are
printed are: date, from, to, ctladdr, stat, and notes.
This is much better than my cobbled-together multiple-grep scripts. Rather surprised to not find it in Debian...
libpst is a command-line tool that converts Outlook .pst files into standard mbox files, the way T&R intended. Wish I'd known about this before…
One of the outstanding feature requests is listing and extracting individual messages. Maybe I'll take a look at this.
In other news, I borked my home machine (Debian testing) by trying to extend a partition w/ReiserFS. That gave me a perfect excuse to upgrade to a bigger disk and reinstall Debian.
Next up is maybe looking at replacing my venerable copy of Slackware 9 with a Debian install, too; the ease of installing and upgrading Debian packages is just too good to pass up.
I did consider other OSs:
And yes, I realize I'm damned ignorant, and that a server should not be exciting. But I'm convinced that a big part of running a server successfully is ease of upgrading, whether security fixes or new app versions, and Debian is just wonderful.