#!/bin/perl -w use strict; my %hash; while () { $hash{$1}{$2}++ if ($_ =~ /.+success\s+(.+)\:(.+)/) ; } for my $user (keys %hash) { print $user."\n"; print "==>".$_."(".$hash{$user}{$_}.")\n" for (keys %{$hash{$user}}); print $1." total:".scalar(keys %{$hash{$user}})." Unique IP's \n\n" if ($user =~ /(.+)\@/); } __DATA__ Jul 28 13:42:27 mail vpopmail[47985]: vchkpw-smtp: (PLAIN) login success joe@example.com:192.168.250.251 Jul 28 13:42:28 mail vpopmail[47992]: vchkpw-smtp: (PLAIN) login success joe@example.com:192.168.5.23 Jul 28 13:42:29 mail vpopmail[47994]: vchkpw-smtp: (PLAIN) login success sally@example.com:192.168.10.28 Jul 28 13:42:27 mail vpopmail[47985]: vchkpw-smtp: (PLAIN) login success fred@example.com:192.168.8.8 Jul 28 13:42:28 mail vpopmail[47992]: vchkpw-smtp: (PLAIN) login success joe@example.com:192.168.5.23 Jul 28 13:42:29 mail vpopmail[47994]: vchkpw-smtp: (PLAIN) login success harry@example.com:192.168.10.5