Drudging through email logs

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. 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.