Awesome script!

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

>On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 elemint@theriver.com wrote:
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>>I have a scirpt that will check to see how many messages are in postfix
>>que and when over 25 messages the script will then send out a message,
>>the problem is when amavis is down (usually the reason that the postfix
>>que is growing) postfix will not send out the message saying the que is
>>growing.
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>Twenty-five messages seems very little, but I guess depends on the
>particular system. (I have seen queues with hundreds of thousands.)
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>>Is it possible to send this message out with exim or some other way so
>>the que is down the help message can go out.
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>So you want an alternative way to send outbound smtp mail?
>
> ( sleep 3 ; echo "HELO rainier" ; sleep 2 ; echo "MAIL FROM:
><you@foo.bar>" ; sleep 1 ; echo "RCPT TO: <you@foo.bar>";
>sleep 1 ; echo "DATA" ; sleep 1 ; echo "Subject: subject here" ; echo ;
>echo "." ; sleep 1 ; echo "QUIT" ) | telnet mail.host.somewhere 25
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>All the above on one line worked for me.
>
>Alternatively, have a look at my mailout software.
> http://www.reedmedia.net/software/mailout/ source via CVS:
> http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mailout/
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>>Here is the script not sure if I have the > than 25 messages part
>>correct from when I can tell this should work.
>>if echo `/utilities/checkque` > [25]
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>Greater than (>) means to the shell to create a file and redirect output
>to it.
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>Have a look at the test man page.
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>if [ `postqueue -p | grep ^[0-9] |wc -l` -gt 25 ] ; then
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> Jeremy C. Reed
>
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