Hi Peter, On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:08:34 +0100, Peter Sørensen <mas...@sdu.dk> wrote: > Hi, > > We have a server outside Our network which will send an mail every 5 > minutes to > a specific mailbox on Our exchange system. This has a limit on 0 which > means that > it will bounce the mail back to the sender. > > We use this to document a baseline. > > When sending we generate a Uniq Message-id - save this in a Database > (MySql) along with the > timestamp. When the bounced mail get back we grap the Message-id and > timeinfo and all this > is saved in the DB.
Could you make this script public, it sounds very helpful to me. I would like to test it and maybe extend it with pop and imap checks too. > > You could use this info test if mailloop is to long. > > Best regards > > Peter Sørensen > > Phone. 6550 2858 > Fax 6550 2860 > mail mas...@sdu.dk > Web http://intern.sdu.dk/it-service/ansatte/ps-238/ > Adr. Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M > > University of Southern Denmark > _______________________________________________________________ > Campusvej 55 * 5230 * Odense M * Tlf. 6550 1000 * www.sdu.dk > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org > [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Martijn de Munnik > Sent: 11. november 2009 09:54 > To: postfix-users@postfix.org > Subject: Test e-mailservice > > 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
