Hi monks, I have a postfix logfile /var/log/maillog. I want to send a blocked mail digest to users on daily basis. ( Let's say @ 10.30 am everyday). I want to print all lines from 10.30 a.m from yesterday to 10.30 am today from this /var/log/maillog to anoter file.

Then I will grep the BLOCKED mails from this file and send a Blocked mail Digest report to users.

How can I achieve this?

I found similar urls.

Extracting Log File data for a given date range
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21995141/perl-script-to-extract-data-from-log-file-between-two-date-ranges-not-necessary

mail maillog looks like this 

Feb  1 03:10:39 mailgw postfix/smtpd[31168]: disconnect from host.doma
+in.net[8.3.14.x]

Feb  1 03:10:41 mailgw postfix/smtpd[31175]: connect from localhost.lo
+caldomain[127.0.0.1]

Feb  1 03:10:41 mailgw postfix/smtpd[31175]: 42B1A1620467: client=loca
+lhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]

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and so on I am still trying to write it. Can you monks help me on this.

In reply to print lines withing specific date range from mailoog file by theravadamonk

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