when amavis is down mail from script does not go out

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.
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.

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]
then
     cat /home/jimb/amavis.not.alive | mail [email]user@domain.com[/email]
fi

Here is /utilites/checkque:

cat /utilities/checkque
postqueue -p |grep ^[0-9] |wc -l


Jim

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