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
>
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