Simon, the script checks imap is alive. No more, no less. If you want to
check for pop3 as well, fix the script accordingly.
Simon wrote:
> Thanks Paul. I have got this script working now.. (just manually at the
> mo), but when i run it, it restarts dbmail every time... is this correct?
>
> Im guessing that it checks to see if the imap times out then restarts
> dbmail if it does.
>
> Is the pop3 problem:
>
>> A month ago or so i updated from dbmail-mysql 2.0.4-0.20050211 to
>> dbmail2-mysql 2.0.4-1.20050630. Since then we have had a few problems
>> with dbmail IMAP and POP just stopping responding... On a restart this
>> is the output:
>
> also covered by this script? In other words, is the pop3 a "br product"
> of the imap timing out. Sorry if i havent written this correctly :)
>
> Simon
>
> Paul J Stevens wrote:
>
>> timeout is in package timeout, iirc,
>> nc is in package netcat.
>>
>>
>> Simon wrote:
>>
>>> Paul J Stevens wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> check_dbmail() {
>>>> timeout -1 2 nc -w 5 localhost imap 2>/dev/null |\
>>>> head -1|grep -E '\* OK' || return 1
>>>> return 0
>>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Can someone let me know what debian package (etc) we get the command
>>> 'nc' from?
>
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