Hi, Last night we had a issue with our mail server which went unnoticed till this morning. Our spam filter crashed and postfix couldn't feed mails for check to localhost:10024. The mails stayed in the queue till we noticed that we didn't received any mail this morning. I restarted the spam filter and now the queue is being processed. Of course I don't want this to happen again in the future. How do people test their mail server periodically? So far we use webmin which tries to connect to port 25, 110 and 143 and checks if the greeting is correct. If one of these connections fail we get a phone call. I can't check services which are only running on localhost because webmin is checking from a remote host. Does anybody use a check which checks the complete mail loop? I was thinking of sending a mail from a remote host (with webmin) to a test mail account and see if I can download the mail with imap and then with pop which removes the mail. The test mail account should also send a reply to the original sender (maybe explaining it's a test address) and the test server should also check for this reply. Does anybody have such a test setup?
Thanks, Martijn -- YoungGuns Kasteleinenkampweg 7b 5222 AX 's-Hertogenbosch T. 073 623 56 40 F. 073 623 56 39 www.youngguns.nl KvK 18076568
