Re: Creating a Script to see if amavis is alive

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.


Jeremy C. Reed

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