I am in charge of maintaining a linux e-mail server running qmail on Red Hat Linux.Fairly often, I have to trace the path of some email through syslog and to be frank, this is rather tedious. Particularly so for me as my Linux skills are somewhat at the level of a newbie.Are there any desktop apps (or even command tools) that inspect the incoming and outgoing mail logs with better usability instead of clobbering bash commands together?What I have in mind is some tool that I could import a log file and it would organize all the information for me, so that I could perform some searches on it, or view the path of email messages in and out of my system.Perhaps this is lofty wishes at the moment, but I'm trying to see what my options are.
Drudging through email logs
software rec;logs;email;qmail
Have a look at Splunk. You can download  a version for free -- at least to dig into a couple log files for you. It will help you manage your log files and also know whats going on in your system. It's quick to setup. 