Since it is amavis that is having a problem what about setting up a script to "telnet 127.0.0.1 10024" and if it fails then send emial to user@..,. This is how it looks when amavis is runnning telnet 127.0.0.1 10024 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. 220 [127.0.0.1] ESMTP amavisd-new service ready This is how it looks when amavis is down telnet 127.0.0.1 10024 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused Jim Craig White wrote: >On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 12:59, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > >>On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Craig White wrote: >> >> >> >>>Without really thinking this completely through, my initial inclination >>>would be to set up a mail alias that routes mail to /dev/null. Then I >>>would have a shell script that has something like... >>> >>>if mail user_whose_mail_goes_to_dev_null -s "testing for accepting mail" >>>= 0; then mail real_mail_notification_address -s "Problem with mail >>>server"; fi >>> >>> >>mail should always return 0 even if mail alias is missing. It is not >>mail's responsibility (and it does not know how) to check this. >> >> >--- >hmmm - I was thinking that if the connection were refused, the result >would be 0 (failure) - I could be wrong, I've been wrong once or twice >before ;-) > >I cannot fathom a way that you could ping or telnet into the box with >any predictable outcome to know that mail is being refused on port 25 >(which is what he is looking to get alerts for). > >My previous recommendation for webmin which already includes a postfix >monitor seemed to fall on deaf ears. > >Craig > >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss