>> I'm not sure, if sending an e-mail about a "full mailqueue"-condition is >> the best way to go ;-) > depends > > if you have no bulk-mail on your server it will tak enot too long > to find a good value to adjust the "50" and as example if i have > 500 queued messages i like to look if there is soemthing going > wrong
What I meant was, that there is a good chance, that you will not receive this notification, because whatever condition causes your mails to stuck in the queue could stop that notification, too ;-) As mentioned by other posters you should set up a real monitoring system, that periodically checks your queue or generates an alert (e.g. snmp trap) on the server which does not rely on the mechanism that you are trying to monitor (here smtp). cheers, jpk
