Mark Watts: > > I have a requirement to be able to monitor a postfix queue over time, > and to determine whether any messages are delayed due to problems > connecting to a remote servers. > > The mail system concerned is pretty simple; messages are generated > locally and relayed to a remote server across a VPN. > > While I can monitor connectivity to port 25 on the remote server, that > doesn't guarantee that it would accept a message for onward delivery; I > need to be able to notice delivery issues and initiate a meatware > interface. Once the message is accepted by the remote server, onward > delivery is monitored by another system that I have no control over. > > I believe I am limited to monitoring the local mail queue to see if > messages are being deferred, and reporting accordingly? > > The postqueue(1) command doesn't appear to generate output in a format > particularly useful for scripts to parse, so is there another tool I can > use or is there better way to approach this problem?
QSHAPE (bundled with Postfix source) reports queue stats by age. http://www.postfix.org/QSHAPE_README.html Wietse
