On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:17:01 +0100, Peter Sørensen <mas...@sdu.dk> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > I will do that. I probably have to do a little bit of cleanup/docs before > I send it. Will do that in the next couple of days. Hope this is OK for > you.
Sure that's fine with me. Thank you very much! > > Best regards > > Peter > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org > [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Martijn de Munnik > Sent: 11. november 2009 11:31 > To: Peter Sørensen > Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org > Subject: RE: Test e-mailservice > > Hi Peter, > > On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:08:34 +0100, Peter Sørensen <mas...@sdu.dk> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We have a server outside Our network which will send an mail every 5 >> minutes to >> a specific mailbox on Our exchange system. This has a limit on 0 which >> means that >> it will bounce the mail back to the sender. >> >> We use this to document a baseline. >> >> When sending we generate a Uniq Message-id - save this in a Database >> (MySql) along with the >> timestamp. When the bounced mail get back we grap the Message-id and >> timeinfo and all this >> is saved in the DB. > > Could you make this script public, it sounds very helpful to me. I would > like to test it and maybe extend it with pop and imap checks too. >> >> You could use this info test if mailloop is to long. >> >> Best regards >> >> Peter Sørensen >> >> Phone. 6550 2858 >> Fax 6550 2860 >> mail mas...@sdu.dk >> Web http://intern.sdu.dk/it-service/ansatte/ps-238/ >> Adr. Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M >> >> University of Southern Denmark >> _______________________________________________________________ >> Campusvej 55 * 5230 * Odense M * Tlf. 6550 1000 * www.sdu.dk >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org >> [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Martijn de Munnik >> Sent: 11. november 2009 09:54 >> To: postfix-users@postfix.org >> Subject: Test e-mailservice >> >> Hi, >> >> Last night we had a issue with our mail server which went unnoticed till >> this morning. Our spam filter crashed and postfix couldn't feed mails > for >> check to localhost:10024. The mails stayed in the queue till we noticed >> that we didn't received any mail this morning. I restarted the spam > filter >> and now the queue is being processed. >> Of course I don't want this to happen again in the future. How do people >> test their mail server periodically? So far we use webmin which tries to >> connect to port 25, 110 and 143 and checks if the greeting is correct. > If >> one of these connections fail we get a phone call. I can't check > services >> which are only running on localhost because webmin is checking from a >> remote host. Does anybody use a check which checks the complete mail > loop? >> I was thinking of sending a mail from a remote host (with webmin) to a > test >> mail account and see if I can download the mail with imap and then with > pop >> which removes the mail. The test mail account should also send a reply > to >> the original sender (maybe explaining it's a test address) and the test >> server should also check for this reply. >> Does anybody have such a test setup? >> >> Thanks, >> Martijn -- YoungGuns Kasteleinenkampweg 7b 5222 AX 's-Hertogenbosch T. 073 623 56 40 F. 073 623 56 39 www.youngguns.nl KvK 18076568
