Automating regular checks that incoming & outgoing mails are still working

2011-08-21 Thread Roger Goh
There's often problem with our postfix mail server (that runs Cyrus / Cyrus-imapd) : I have scripts (using mutt) to send hourly mails out (& from another postfix server, I can send mails to it). I need a way / method such that if those hourly test mails were never sent out or received, I'll need

Re: Automating regular checks that incoming & outgoing mails are still working

2011-08-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.08.2011 16:03, schrieb Roger Goh: > There's often problem with our postfix mail server (that runs Cyrus / > Cyrus-imapd) : > > I have scripts (using mutt) to send hourly mails out (& from another > postfix server, I > can send mails to it). > > I need a way / method such that if those hourly

Re: Automating regular checks that incoming & outgoing mails are still working

2011-08-21 Thread Roger Goh
There could be various reasons why mails are not going out or coming in & I have test scripts to send between my two postfix servers; so why not monitor those test mails hourly?

Re: Automating regular checks that incoming & outgoing mails are still working

2011-08-21 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 2011-08-21 16:03, Roger Goh wrote: There's often problem with our postfix mail server (that runs Cyrus / Cyrus-imapd) : Which is ? I have scripts (using mutt) to send hourly mails out (& from another postfix server, I can send mails to it). I need a way / method such that if those hourly

Re: Automating regular checks that incoming & outgoing mails are still working

2011-08-21 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
In an older episode, on 2011-08-21 16:03, Roger Goh wrote: how do I sent an alert email to notify support if outgoing mail is not working anymore? For such cases, I use a perl script that connects to a different SMTP server to send a mail. See attachment. Hope this helps, wolfgang #!/usr

Re: Automating regular checks that incoming & outgoing mails are still working

2011-08-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.08.2011 16:14, schrieb Roger Goh: > There could be various reasons why mails are not going out or > coming in search them and fix them! mails never get lost without badly wring configuration somewhere if something is filling your mailqueue with wrong addresses verify them on insert, grep

Re: Automating regular checks that incoming & outgoing mails are still working

2011-08-21 Thread Roger Goh
Thanks for the Perl script Wolfgang > resource were exhausted, too many "MAILER-DAEMON" or tens of thousands > of stuck mails due to invalid email address (as shown by mailq) >> Then your configuration is partially or wholly incorrect. Well, it's often triggered by our mail blasting team : it's

Re: Automating regular checks that incoming & outgoing mails are still working

2011-08-21 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 2011-08-21 16:22, Roger Goh wrote: Thanks for the Perl script Wolfgang resource were exhausted, too many "MAILER-DAEMON" or tens of thousands of stuck mails due to invalid email address (as shown by mailq) Then your configuration is partially or wholly incorrect. Well, it's often trigge

Re: Automating regular checks that incoming & outgoing mails are still working

2011-08-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.08.2011 16:22, schrieb Roger Goh: > Thanks for the Perl script Wolfgang > > >> resource were exhausted, too many "MAILER-DAEMON" or tens of thousands >> of stuck mails due to invalid email address (as shown by mailq) > > >>> Then your configuration is partially or wholly incorrect. > We

Mailing list application

2011-08-21 Thread Selcuk Yazar
Hi We have installed and runned Postifx+OpenLDAP+SASL cryrus + DoveCot + SquirellMail + Jamm applciations in our mail server. Everything is going fine. i want to install majordomo(or alternative) maillist manager on this configuration , how can i do that. We have old majordomo lists can we integ

Re: Mailing list application

2011-08-21 Thread Victoriano Giralt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Selcuk Yazar wrote: | Hi Hi Selcuk | i want to install majordomo(or alternative) maillist manager on this | configuration , how can i do that. We have old majordomo lists can we | integrate list on this structure. (When we ad new Ldap mail account w

Fatal: No SASL Authentication Mechanisms Error

2011-08-21 Thread Shalom Levytam
Hi, I'm trying to configure a new server with postfix 2.6.6 and dovecot 2.0. My previous servers have all been dovecot 1.x. Trying to port over my previous configurations has been a real headache. Currently, I'm getting the following errors when trying to connect with: openssl s_client -starttls

Re: Fatal: No SASL Authentication Mechanisms Error

2011-08-21 Thread Wietse Venema
Shalom Levytam: > Hi, > > I'm trying to configure a new server with postfix 2.6.6 and dovecot 2.0. > My previous servers have all been dovecot 1.x. Trying to port over my > previous configurations has been a real headache. > > Currently, I'm getting the following errors when trying to connect wi

Re: Automating regular checks that incoming & outgoing mails are still working

2011-08-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-08-21 16:22:03 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > and how should anybody imagine what the result of the monitoring is? > a mail that mail is not working *laughing* It makes sense: the postfix monitoring system could send a mail using SMTP directly. If it's a postfix-related problem (not a more

Re: Automating regular checks that incoming & outgoing mails are still working

2011-08-21 Thread Wietse Venema
Vincent Lefevre: > On 2011-08-21 16:22:03 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > and how should anybody imagine what the result of the monitoring is? > > a mail that mail is not working *laughing* > > It makes sense: the postfix monitoring system could send a mail using > SMTP directly. If it's a postfix