On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 13:37, Kevin Brown wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 13:27, elemint@theriver.com wrote:
> > 
> >>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
> > 
> > ---
> > OK - I understand that.
> > 
> > but if new mail comes in, doesn't postfix hold it in the queue until
> > amavis is ready?  Does mail (postfix) refuse mail?
> > 
> > Also, how does one 'script' a telnet login, capture standard out and
> > then logout? That's what I cannot fathom.
> 
> perl or expect languages...
---
when he started this thread, I was thinking expect but I never used it
before. I guess expect would solve the issue of cron too. The only thing
you would have to worry about is memory leakage.

Craig

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