[pfx] Re: Monitoring postfix?

2024-07-29 Thread Serhii via Postfix-users
On 7/28/24 20:59, Christophe Kalt via Postfix-users wrote: How do folks monitor the health of their postfix installations? I am using https://github.com/kumina/postfix_exporter for metrics collection and to spot anomalies if there are any. But it is definitely not a silver bullet, I am intere

[pfx] Re: Monitoring postfix?

2024-07-29 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas via Postfix-users
On 28.07.24 16:59, Christophe Kalt via Postfix-users wrote: How do folks monitor the health of their postfix installations? log monitoring seems to be essential, rates of warning/error messages seem meaningful. Then there are the statistics regularly emitted, but these seem more indicative of

[pfx] Re: Monitoring postfix?

2024-07-28 Thread Viktor Dukhovni via Postfix-users
On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 04:59:48PM -0400, Christophe Kalt via Postfix-users wrote: > Finally, what are the various queues? > https://www.postfix.org/QSHAPE_README.html mentions maildrop, hold, > incoming, active & deferred, Which are where you might find a given message. > but I also see bounce

[pfx] Monitoring postfix?

2024-07-28 Thread Christophe Kalt via Postfix-users
Hi, How do folks monitor the health of their postfix installations? log monitoring seems to be essential, rates of warning/error messages seem meaningful. Then there are the statistics regularly emitted, but these seem more indicative of busyness. Finally, monitoring queue sizes is probably

[pfx] DANE monitoring building block: updated "danesmtp" shell function

2023-08-25 Thread Viktor Dukhovni via Postfix-users
On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 07:48:30PM -0400, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > Problem found via: > > danesmtp () > { > local host=$1; > shift; > local opts=(-starttls smtp -connect "$host:25" -verify 9 > -verify_return_error -dane_ee_no_namechecks -dane_tlsa_domain "$host");

Re: monitoring the effectiveness of smtpd processes

2022-10-10 Thread Wietse Venema
Viktor Dukhovni: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 10:27:37AM +0200, juan smitt wrote: > > > How can one directly monitor the effectiveness of the increased number > > of Postfix SMTP server processes? > > (https://www.postfix.org/STRESS_README.html) > > > > Is it true that this scales up dynamically unt

Re: monitoring the effectiveness of smtpd processes

2022-10-10 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 10:27:37AM +0200, juan smitt wrote: > How can one directly monitor the effectiveness of the increased number > of Postfix SMTP server processes? > (https://www.postfix.org/STRESS_README.html) > > Is it true that this scales up dynamically until the limit, Yes, a new smtpd

Re: monitoring the effectiveness of smtpd processes

2022-10-10 Thread Wietse Venema
juan smitt: > Hi, > > > How can one directly monitor the effectiveness of the increased number > of Postfix SMTP server processes? > (https://www.postfix.org/STRESS_README.html) Each Postfix SMTP server process handles one remote SMTP client at a time. The number of processes can be zero up to a

monitoring the effectiveness of smtpd processes

2022-10-10 Thread juan smitt
Hi, How can one directly monitor the effectiveness of the increased number of Postfix SMTP server processes? (https://www.postfix.org/STRESS_README.html) Is it true that this scales up dynamically until the limit, which means I can monitor it indirectly by counting the number of processes (and a

RE: Monitoring logs for blocks and deferrals

2021-05-24 Thread Justin Lloyd
Yeah, it basically seems that there are no native capabilities in Postfix for what I’m looking for, and so everyone pretty much needs to roll whatever ad hoc log monitoring they want. It’s a challenge because of the diversity of responses that MTAs can respond when there are problems with your

Re: Monitoring logs for blocks and deferrals

2021-05-23 Thread Leandro Santiago
Hi Justin, I work for a young startup called Lightmeter and we have been developing an open source (AGPL licensed) tool that aims to fit needs similar to yours. It's called Lightmeter Control Center and we've developing it for the past ~1 year, so it's not full featured, but we have been work

Re: Monitoring logs for blocks and deferrals

2021-05-12 Thread IL Ka
> > > Postfix have any native capabilities good for detecting these issues and > acting on them, or would I just need to do some kind of checks on the > pflogsumm output each day? Obviously the sooner I can catch these messages > and act on them, the better, so the more realtime I can do this, the

Monitoring logs for blocks and deferrals

2021-05-12 Thread Justin Lloyd
Hi all, I'm not sure if this list is completely appropriate for this question, so let me know if it's not. I have a couple of Postfix servers that are the MX servers for a couple of domains that handle a total of around 160-180k messages each week. They servers are just relays (no local accoun

Re: Monitoring amount of smtpd processes

2018-10-24 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
> max_idle was the option I was looking for. Thank you. > > I always grepped for something like timeout/daemon/time and I never > found max_idle. :-) Lowered here as well... -- [*] sys4 AG https://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Schleißheimer Straße 26/MG, 80333 München

Re: Monitoring amount of smtpd processes

2018-10-24 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
> It could also be very great to have Postfix like this, showing some > informations about the connection: > > smtpd [unused/virgin] > or > smtpd [, , , ] > > Could be great for analysis and to get a quick overview about what's > going on on busy servers. That's a nice idea on systems where this

Re: Monitoring amount of smtpd processes

2018-10-21 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Oct 21, 2018, at 5:14 PM, Peer Heinlein > wrote: > > If a client connects to smtpd and then breaks the connection because > there's only STARTTLS or AUTH ONLY we have those remaining smtpd > processes -- which makes the server looking busy, while he isn't. > > If there's really a long p

Re: Monitoring amount of smtpd processes

2018-10-21 Thread Peer Heinlein
ver IS busy and I WANT to have an alarm. >> In that situations we're seeing false positives in our monitoring. > Please fix your monitoring! Yes, I do that -- that's why I'm requesting help (thanks for max_idle) or some additional changes to enable a better mo

Re: Monitoring amount of smtpd processes

2018-10-21 Thread Jan P. Kessler
we're monitoring the amount of active smtpd processes to make sure, that we do not reach the max-proc limit from master.cf. The number I found most useful to indicate something was going wrong is the number of messages in the queue.  For the servers I manage, normally that number wou

Re: Monitoring amount of smtpd processes

2018-10-21 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 10/20/2018 7:24 AM, Peer Heinlein wrote: we're monitoring the amount of active smtpd processes to make sure, that we do not reach the max-proc limit from master.cf. If a client disconnects very early, the smtpd is still "unused" and remains in server memory, waiting for the

Re: Monitoring amount of smtpd processes

2018-10-20 Thread Wietse Venema
Peer Heinlein: > > Hi, > > we're monitoring the amount of active smtpd processes to make sure, that > we do not reach the max-proc limit from master.cf. > > If a client disconnects very early, the smtpd is still "unused" and > remains in server memory, waitin

Re: Monitoring amount of smtpd processes

2018-10-20 Thread Stefan Bauer
We simply monitor established tcp sessions to smtpd port. if client flies away, tcp session does as well: lsof -i tcp:25 | grep ESTABLISHED | wc -l Am Samstag, 20. Oktober 2018 schrieb Peer Heinlein : > > > > Hi, > > we're monitoring the amount of active smtpd processes

Monitoring amount of smtpd processes

2018-10-20 Thread Peer Heinlein
Hi, we're monitoring the amount of active smtpd processes to make sure, that we do not reach the max-proc limit from master.cf. If a client disconnects very early, the smtpd is still "unused" and remains in server memory, waiting for the next connection. If a server was flood

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-05 Thread Poliman - Serwis
Thank you. I have to get all these message and try to build script which send me an email with specific number of emails send from particular email account. 2018-04-05 16:00 GMT+02:00 chaouche yacine : > > Yes, more specifically you should grep on 'Relay' to avoid other amavis > lines > > root@me

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-05 Thread chaouche yacine
Yes, more specifically you should grep on 'Relay' to avoid other amavis lines root@messagerie[10.10.10.19] ~ # grep amavis /var/log/mail.log | grep -v Relay | head Apr  1 06:59:29 messagerie-prep amavis[25741]: starting. /usr/sbin/amavisd-new at myhost.mydomain.tld amavisd-new-2.10.1 (20141025

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-05 Thread Poliman - Serwis
I wasn't able to find text "amavis" in log file. I tried production server and finally I see it and I know what you suggest me. It looks like: Apr 5 15:11:56 s1 amavis[26789]: (26789-13) Passed CLEAN {RelayedOutbound}, LOCAL [127.0.0.1] -> < s...@domain.com> Is it the line about which you said?

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-05 Thread chaouche yacine
You didn't say what's wrong the line grepping on amavis ? it should give you what you want : one line by sender. On Thursday, April 5, 2018, 1:51:28 PM GMT+1, Poliman - Serwis wrote: I used this script and after comparison result generated by collate.pl and mail.log file I think tha

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-05 Thread chaouche yacine
I was talking about collate.pl On Thursday, April 5, 2018, 12:04:45 PM GMT+1, Poliman - Serwis wrote: Yacine, do you say about collate.pl script or "from=" part from log file? I suppose that abotu script. If collate.pl could group by some id, it would be nice, because I would have on

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-05 Thread Poliman - Serwis
Yacine, do you say about collate.pl script or "from=" part from log file? I suppose that abotu script. If collate.pl could group by some id, it would be nice, because I would have only one line from log dependent from particular email sent. 2018-04-05 12:31 GMT+02:00 chaouche yacine : > No it won

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-05 Thread chaouche yacine
No it won't, it will simply group qids together so that you can trace individual e-mails, instead of having intermingled log lines from different e-mails. On Thursday, April 5, 2018, 7:10:11 AM GMT+1, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Apr 5, 2018, at 2:07 AM, Poliman - Serwis wrote:

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-04 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Apr 5, 2018, at 2:07 AM, Poliman - Serwis wrote: > > Using collate.pl script I won't have to count "from=" from mail log, this > script merge it, am I right? Try it and see what you get. You may need to make some adjustments to the regular expressions depending on how your syslog forma

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-04 Thread Poliman - Serwis
Using collate.pl script I won't have to count "from=" from mail log, this script merge it, am I right? 2018-04-05 7:57 GMT+02:00 Viktor Dukhovni : > > > > On Apr 5, 2018, at 1:39 AM, Scott Kitterman > wrote: > > > > On Thursday, April 05, 2018 07:34:44 AM Poliman - Serwis wrote: > >> Unfortunate

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-04 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Apr 5, 2018, at 1:39 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Thursday, April 05, 2018 07:34:44 AM Poliman - Serwis wrote: >> Unfortunately I use Postfix from Ubuntu repos. > > apt-get source postfix > cd postfix-[version] (depends your Ubuntu release) > cd auxiliary/collate > ls > > and you'll

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-04 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, April 05, 2018 07:34:44 AM Poliman - Serwis wrote: > Unfortunately I use Postfix from Ubuntu repos. apt-get source postfix cd postfix-[version] (depends your Ubuntu release) cd auxiliary/collate ls and you'll see both collate.pl and the associated README. Scott K > 2018-04-04 13:08

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-04 Thread Poliman - Serwis
Unfortunately I use Postfix from Ubuntu repos. 2018-04-04 13:08 GMT+02:00 Wietse Venema : > Poliman - Serwis: > > Could you tell me I could add e-mails together from mail.log which are in > > line with "from=" part? Hmm I hope I say clear. I need count emails from > > particular mailbox. Can I ba

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-04 Thread Poliman - Serwis
I am not sure I understood well. There are three "from=", and you said which one repond to which behavior, so I think I could base on "from=" from log file but I should divide by three number of emails send by specific user. Am I right? 2018-04-04 11:11 GMT+02:00 chaouche yacine : > The log line

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-04 Thread Wietse Venema
Poliman - Serwis: > Could you tell me I could add e-mails together from mail.log which are in > line with "from=" part? Hmm I hope I say clear. I need count emails from > particular mailbox. Can I base on "from="? For example: > Apr 3 11:49:48 s1 postfix/qmgr[722]: 3B8C313BE2D: from=, > size=4000,

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-04 Thread chaouche yacine
The log line from avmavis already has the sender a single time, regardless of the number of recipients. Also, if you grep on from, keep in mind that the email first goes from outside to postfix (1st from), the from postfix to amavis (second from), then from amavis back to postfix (third from).

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-04 Thread Poliman - Serwis
Or maybe I could base on this value but divided by 3. 2018-04-04 9:43 GMT+02:00 Poliman - Serwis : > Hmm, probably I can't base on this, because when I send one email I have > in log three lines with "from=" and value . > 1st line --> Apr 4 09:32:41 s1 postfix/submission/smtpd[5622]: NOQUEUE: >

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-04 Thread Poliman - Serwis
Hmm, probably I can't base on this, because when I send one email I have in log three lines with "from=" and value . 1st line --> Apr 4 09:32:41 s1 postfix/submission/smtpd[5622]: NOQUEUE: filter: RCPT from host-X.Y.Z.W.static.com[X.Y.Z.W]: < t...@example.com >: Sender address triggers FILTER amav

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-04-03 Thread Poliman - Serwis
Could you tell me I could add e-mails together from mail.log which are in line with "from=" part? Hmm I hope I say clear. I need count emails from particular mailbox. Can I base on "from="? For example: Apr 3 11:49:48 s1 postfix/qmgr[722]: 3B8C313BE2D: from=, size=4000, nrcpt=1 (queue active) 201

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-30 Thread Poliman - Serwis
Thank you for answer. I am going to use your command - without any typos :P - and wrap it by some bash script which will check the "Hits" value and send email with report. I hope I will do it. :) 2018-03-30 17:52 GMT+02:00 chaouche yacine : > Absolutely. Amavis comes with a default score of 5.0.

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-30 Thread chaouche yacine
Absolutely. Amavis comes with a default score of 5.0. Any e-mail which has a 5.0 score or higher is considered spam. You might have false positives though, for example if the user's ISP addresses are blacklisted, which might be the case dependning on the country and ISP. Yassine. On Friday

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-30 Thread Poliman - Serwis
Yassine, appreciate your answer. I will check further in it but do you think that spam score could help with estimate which mail from which account is or not spam? 2018-03-30 9:27 GMT+02:00 chaouche yacine : > Here are some ideas : > > 1/ Create a directory somewhere in /var/, for example mailst

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-30 Thread chaouche yacine
Here are some ideas : 1/ Create a directory somewhere in /var/, for example mailstats2/ The directory will contain one file per sender3/ Your bash script will parse the mail log file in real time (tail -f) then tee each matching line to the corresponding mailstats/user file, for example if the

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-29 Thread Poliman - Serwis
Some emails has "Hits" value even, for example 2,5. What is (if it's possible to say) good value? I am going to create script in bash which send me an email when from particular email account will outbound for example 300 emails per day. Kind of warning. But I am not sure I could use spam score to

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-29 Thread chaouche yacine
It is, that's the spam score. It helps to visualise if a particular mailbox is bombarded with spam (can happen with lots and lots of e-mails from qq.com, I have that domain banned in postfix itself). Yassine. On Thursday, March 29, 2018, 3:21:16 PM GMT+1, Alex JOST wrote: Am 29.03.20

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-29 Thread Alex JOST
Am 29.03.2018 um 15:30 schrieb Poliman - Serwis: This one works well. One question based on one from generated lines: Mar 26 11:47:41 ORIGINATING LOCAL [127.0.0.1]:38920 -> ,, Hits: 0.742 Mar 26 11:47:41 --> this is date and hour when mail from i...@klub-biosfera.pl was sent to i...@klub-biosf

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-29 Thread Poliman - Serwis
-line-buffered -v ' > > (Process_Control| notifications.systemes| > PODCAST-|Admin-ch|PUB_CONTROL| @mydomain.tld|rpub@mydomain. tld' > > | sed -u 's/messagerie-prep amavis.*},//;s/Hits:\([^,]\+\) .*/HITS:\1/; > s/\ > > (Queue-ID\|Message-ID\).*, HITS/Hits/&

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-29 Thread chaouche yacine
>  (Queue-ID\|Message-ID\).*, HITS/Hits/'|grep "$REGX_EMAIL ->" > >  This will strip out automatic notifications and give me output like this : > >  Mar 28 16:25:24 LOCAL [127.0.0.1]:47600 -> >  ,, Hits: -0.999 > >  One can tee this into a file and build from ther

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-29 Thread Poliman - Serwis
ffered 'Relay' | egrep > --line-buffered -v ' > > (Process_Control| notifications.systemes| > PODCAST-|Admin-ch|PUB_CONTROL| @mydomain.tld|rpub@mydomain. tld' > > | sed -u 's/messagerie-prep amavis.*},//;s/Hits:\([^,]\+\) .*/HITS:\1/; > s/\ > > (

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-29 Thread chaouche yacine
: > >  Mar 28 16:25:24 LOCAL [127.0.0.1]:47600 -> >  ,, Hits: -0.999 > >  One can tee this into a file and build from there. You can do basic stuff >with the (sort | uniq -c >  | sort -n) pipe machine. > >  On Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 3:09:24 PM GMT+1, Poliman - Serw

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-29 Thread Poliman - Serwis
IL ->" > > > > This will strip out automatic notifications and give me output like > this : > > > > Mar 28 16:25:24 LOCAL [127.0.0.1]:47600 > -> > > ,, Hits: -0.999 > > > > > One can tee this into a file and build from there. You can d

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-29 Thread chaouche yacine
dnesday, March 28, 2018, 3:09:24 PM GMT+1, Poliman - Serwis > >  wrote: > >  Thank you, I will check it. I am looking for information which linux user >sends email and how >  many, for example, per hour, day. That would be perfect plugin. > >  2018-03-28 15:59 GMT+02:0

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-28 Thread Poliman - Serwis
a file and build from there. You can do basic > stuff with the (sort | uniq -c > > | sort -n) pipe machine. > > > > On Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 3:09:24 PM GMT+1, Poliman - Serwis < > ser...@poliman.pl> > > wrote: > > > > Thank you, I will che

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-28 Thread Olivier
| sort -n) pipe machine. > > On Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 3:09:24 PM GMT+1, Poliman - Serwis > > wrote: > > Thank you, I will check it. I am looking for information which linux user > sends email and how > many, for example, per hour, day. That would be perfect plugin.

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-28 Thread Poliman - Serwis
March 28, 2018, 3:09:24 PM GMT+1, Poliman - Serwis < > ser...@poliman.pl> wrote: > > > Thank you, I will check it. I am looking for information which linux user > sends email and how many, for example, per hour, day. That would be perfect > plugin. > > 2018-03-28 15:59

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-28 Thread chaouche yacine
ect plugin. 2018-03-28 15:59 GMT+02:00 Matus UHLAR - fantomas : Poliman - Serwis: Hi people. Do you know is there any tool/plugin for monitoring outgoing emails from server with postfix? Maybe postfix has this feature? On 28.03.18 09:57, Wietse Venema wrote: Postfix logs all transactions.

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-28 Thread Poliman - Serwis
ny tool/plugin for monitoring outgoing >>> emails from server with postfix? Maybe postfix has this feature? >>> >> > On 28.03.18 09:57, Wietse Venema wrote: > >> Postfix logs all transactions. I suggest that you look for tools >> that analyze Postfix logs. >

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-28 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Poliman - Serwis: Hi people. Do you know is there any tool/plugin for monitoring outgoing emails from server with postfix? Maybe postfix has this feature? On 28.03.18 09:57, Wietse Venema wrote: Postfix logs all transactions. I suggest that you look for tools that analyze Postfix logs

Re: monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-28 Thread Wietse Venema
Poliman - Serwis: > Hi people. Do you know is there any tool/plugin for monitoring outgoing > emails from server with postfix? Maybe postfix has this feature? Postfix logs all transactions. I suggest that you look for tools that analyze Postfix logs. Wietse

monitoring outgoing emails

2018-03-28 Thread Poliman - Serwis
Hi people. Do you know is there any tool/plugin for monitoring outgoing emails from server with postfix? Maybe postfix has this feature? -- *Pozdrawiam / Best Regards* *Piotr Bracha*

New DANE SMTP monitoring and diagnostic utility

2017-09-17 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
I am pleased to offer to the DANE user community a new monitoring and diagnostic utility. This is a one-shot variant of my survey code specialized for monitoring cron jobs and troubleshooting. Code and instructions at https://github.com/vdukhovni/danecheck While Haskell may be an unfamiliar

Re: Monitoring Postfix Mail queue with SNMP

2017-03-26 Thread Voytek
On Sat, March 18, 2017 4:06 am, Sean Son wrote: > Hello all > > > We would like to monitor Postfix mail queues using SMNP so we can receive > alerts whenever the mail queue reaches a certain threshold. What OID and > MIB would we have to use to be able to monitor Postfix mail queues? Sean, I us

Re: Monitoring Postfix Mail queue with SNMP

2017-03-18 Thread Wietse Venema
gt; > > can receive alerts whenever the mail queue reaches a certain > > > threshold. What OID and MIB would we have to use to be able to > > > monitor Postfix mail queues? > > > > I don't recall a specific MIB that covers mail queues, however > >

Re: Monitoring Postfix Mail queue with SNMP

2017-03-18 Thread Geert Stappers
reaches a certain > > threshold. What OID and MIB would we have to use to be able to > > monitor Postfix mail queues? > > I don't recall a specific MIB that covers mail queues, however > I recommend against monitoring the queue's message count, too > many false

Re: Monitoring Postfix Mail queue with SNMP

2017-03-17 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
Postfix mail queues? I don't recall a specific MIB that covers mail queues, however I recommend against monitoring the queue's message count, too many false alarms from spikes in traffic. What is more useful to monitor is average time from queue entry to queue exit, and also ave

Monitoring Postfix Mail queue with SNMP

2017-03-17 Thread Sean Son
Hello all We would like to monitor Postfix mail queues using SMNP so we can receive alerts whenever the mail queue reaches a certain threshold. What OID and MIB would we have to use to be able to monitor Postfix mail queues? Thank you for all of your help in this post and other posts of mine!

RE: SMTP round-trip monitoring

2016-10-20 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
zzina, Angelo Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2016 9:21 AM To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: RE: SMTP round-trip monitoring Hello, I don't know of a service, but we have a Zabbix server and I wrote a python script that is run from a server not in our mail infrastructure(Azure) to verify mail

RE: SMTP round-trip monitoring

2016-10-20 Thread Fazzina, Angelo
UITS, SSG-Linux/ M&C 860-486-9075 From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Rosenbaum, Larry M. Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 4:22 PM To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: OT: SMTP round-trip monitoring We are interested in getting an out

OT: SMTP round-trip monitoring

2016-10-18 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
We are interested in getting an outside service to do round-trip monitoring of our mail servers (i.e. check that SMTP mail is flowing in and out and send a notification if it isn't). [We are not interested in services that send an email to one of our mailboxes and checks it with POP or

Re: Monitoring for failed external commands executed through aliases

2015-06-01 Thread Wietse Venema
Andrew Beverley: > On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 15:09 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > > Postfix already logs the script's output (stdout and stderr) streams, > > and it already logs and reports a non-zero exit status. > > The problem is monitoring this though: it seems that w

Re: Monitoring for failed external commands executed through aliases

2015-06-01 Thread Andrew Beverley
On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 15:09 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > Postfix already logs the script's output (stdout and stderr) streams, > and it already logs and reports a non-zero exit status. The problem is monitoring this though: it seems that when the above are logged they are logged at a

Re: Monitoring for failed external commands executed through aliases

2015-06-01 Thread Wietse Venema
Andrew Beverley: > On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 14:24 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > > Andrew Beverley: > > > So, is there a way to either change the return-path for all external > > > commands, or alternatively set a higher log level for any errors? > > > > If the error happens in the external command, t

Re: Monitoring for failed external commands executed through aliases

2015-06-01 Thread Andrew Beverley
On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 14:24 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > Andrew Beverley: > > So, is there a way to either change the return-path for all external > > commands, or alternatively set a higher log level for any errors? > > If the error happens in the external command, then you could configure > the

Re: Monitoring for failed external commands executed through aliases

2015-06-01 Thread Wietse Venema
Andrew Beverley: > So, is there a way to either change the return-path for all external > commands, or alternatively set a higher log level for any errors? If the error happens in the external command, then you could configure the pipe(8) daemon to run the command under strace and capture strace o

Monitoring for failed external commands executed through aliases

2015-06-01 Thread Andrew Beverley
Dear all, I have some external scripts that are executed through a variety of aliases[1]. I just discovered recently that one of the external commands was dying prematurely, so I wondered: what is the best way for monitoring this happening? I tried setting alerts on my mail.log for messages with

Re: ot: monitoring for 'spam breaches' ? cleanup woes?

2014-10-27 Thread Florian Pritz
On 22.10.2014 04:03, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: > as for 'cleanup' : if this user's home PC is 'infected/hacked', if I just > issue a new password, spam will start again ? Do you limit the amount of mails a user can send per time slot? (like 100 mails in a 6 hour period). If not, please do, you can u

Re: ot: monitoring for 'spam breaches' ? cleanup woes?

2014-10-27 Thread Микаел Бак
Hi, On 10/22/2014 04:03 AM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: [snip] is monitoring blacklists just 'a good idea'? a must ? or? [snip] I use this: http://whmscripts.net/tips/2010/rbl-check-initial-release/ HTH, Mikael

Re: ot: monitoring for 'spam breaches' ? cleanup woes?

2014-10-21 Thread Duane Hill
> # grep username /var/log/maillog.4 | wc > 22 3644692 > I've now edited that username sasl password > what sort of monitoring can one do to have a chance to pick up such > 'failure' earlier ? You can use something like policyd (http://wiki.policyd.or

ot: monitoring for 'spam breaches' ? cleanup woes?

2014-10-21 Thread lists
d what sort of monitoring can one do to have a chance to pick up such 'failure' earlier ? is monitoring blacklists just 'a good idea'? a must ? or? as for 'cleanup' : if this user's home PC is 'infected/hacked', if I just issue a new password, spam will start again ? thanks for any pointers, sorry for ot post V

Re: Monitoring

2013-07-17 Thread Joe
+1 for mailgraph and queuegraph! Joe On 07/17/2013 05:23 AM, José Luís Faria wrote: I'm using http://mailgraph.schweikert.ch/ Em 17-07-2013 13:14, Roman Gelfand escreveu: Is there open source web based postfix server monitoring software? I am looking to see if there is somethi

Re: Monitoring

2013-07-17 Thread Birta Levente
On 17/07/2013 15:14, Roman Gelfand wrote: Is there open source web based postfix server monitoring software? I am looking to see if there is something to monitor queue size, etc... Thanks in advance mailgraph: http://mailgraph.schweikert.ch/ queuegraph: http://www.arschkrebs.de/postfix

Re: Monitoring

2013-07-17 Thread Mike
On 13-07-17 09:14 AM, Roman Gelfand wrote: > Is there open source web based postfix server monitoring software? > > I am looking to see if there is something to monitor queue size, etc... > > Thanks in advance Nagios has a "check_mailq" plugin that works very well with P

Re: Monitoring

2013-07-17 Thread José Luís Faria
I'm using http://mailgraph.schweikert.ch/ Em 17-07-2013 13:14, Roman Gelfand escreveu: Is there open source web based postfix server monitoring software? I am looking to see if there is something to monitor queue size, etc... Thanks in advance smime.p7s Description: Assin

Re: Monitoring

2013-07-17 Thread Przemysław Orzechowski
W dniu 17.07.2013 14:14, Roman Gelfand pisze: Is there open source web based postfix server monitoring software? I am looking to see if there is something to monitor queue size, etc... Thanks in advance Cacti + some scripts on server for SNMP for examle something like this http://www.pitt

Re: Monitoring

2013-07-17 Thread Erwan David
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 02:14:39PM CEST, Roman Gelfand said: > Is there open source web based postfix server monitoring software? > > I am looking to see if there is something to monitor queue size, etc... > > Thanks in advance > munin has some postifx monitoring plugins (am

Monitoring

2013-07-17 Thread Roman Gelfand
Is there open source web based postfix server monitoring software? I am looking to see if there is something to monitor queue size, etc... Thanks in advance

Re: monitoring with Icinga?

2013-06-04 Thread LuKreme
On 04 Jun 2013, at 10:27 , Robert L Mathews wrote: > "In general, the thing I've learned about monitoring is that when possible, > check the system by using it, rather [than] looking for changes in side > effects (such as logs, or number of processes running, etc.). That&#

Re: monitoring with Icinga?

2013-06-04 Thread Robert L Mathews
subject. That's all it takes. Each time the check runs, (1) should find the message sent by (3) of the previous check. The "timestamp in the subject" can be as simple as the epoch seconds. As I wrote on this list 11 years ago(!), "In general, the thing I've learned about m

Re: monitoring with Icinga?

2013-06-02 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 06/02/2013 06:55 PM, Erwan David wrote: Le 02/06/2013 18:12, Wietse Venema a écrit : Lars Nielsen: s?n, 02 06 2013 kl. 12:14 -0300, skrev Mike: On 13-06-02 11:52 AM, Lars Nielsen wrote: Hey List, What is the most common solution to monitoring your postfix mailservers? I use Icinga and

Re: monitoring with Icinga?

2013-06-02 Thread Erwan David
Le 02/06/2013 18:12, Wietse Venema a écrit : Lars Nielsen: s?n, 02 06 2013 kl. 12:14 -0300, skrev Mike: On 13-06-02 11:52 AM, Lars Nielsen wrote: Hey List, What is the most common solution to monitoring your postfix mailservers? I use Icinga and Munin. Is there a good integration to these

Re: monitoring with Icinga?

2013-06-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Lars Nielsen: > s?n, 02 06 2013 kl. 12:14 -0300, skrev Mike: > > On 13-06-02 11:52 AM, Lars Nielsen wrote: > > > Hey List, > > > > > > What is the most common solution to monitoring your postfix mailservers? > > > I use Icinga and Munin. Is there a goo

Re: monitoring with Icinga?

2013-06-02 Thread Mike
On 13-06-02 12:34 PM, Lars Nielsen wrote: My primary use is to recieve emails for my domains. Next I want to relay general emails for a limited amount of authenticated users. Ok, so with step one, you're going to want to have another system send email to a mailbox you host once every 'n' min

Re: monitoring with Icinga?

2013-06-02 Thread Lars Nielsen
søn, 02 06 2013 kl. 12:14 -0300, skrev Mike: > On 13-06-02 11:52 AM, Lars Nielsen wrote: > > Hey List, > > > > What is the most common solution to monitoring your postfix mailservers? > > I use Icinga and Munin. Is there a good integration to these? > > > Tha

monitoring with Icinga?

2013-06-02 Thread Lars Nielsen
Hey List, What is the most common solution to monitoring your postfix mailservers? I use Icinga and Munin. Is there a good integration to these? Best regards Lars Nielsen

Re: ot: bcc smtp-auth for a user? monitoring a user's mails?

2013-01-30 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:31:21PM +1100, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: > we have a contractor given an email address for use in contacting > clients, the boss would like to bcc all his outbound mails, is > there a way to bcc all outbound emails for one user ? > > (I realize he can simply change his s

ot: bcc smtp-auth for a user? monitoring a user's mails?

2013-01-30 Thread lists
we have a contractor given an email address for use in contacting clients, the boss would like to bcc all his outbound mails, is there a way to bcc all outbound emails for one user ? (I realize he can simply change his smtp to another smtp server to overcome this, but, that's what the boss wants..

Re: Queue monitoring

2010-11-29 Thread Mark Watts
accept a message for onward delivery; I >> need to be able to notice delivery issues and initiate a meatware >> interface. Once the message is accepted by the remote server, onward >> delivery is monitored by another system that I have no control over. >> >> I bel

Re: Queue monitoring

2010-11-25 Thread Wietse Venema
message is accepted by the remote server, onward > delivery is monitored by another system that I have no control over. > > I believe I am limited to monitoring the local mail queue to see if > messages are being deferred, and reporting accordingly? > > The postqueue(1) command d

Queue monitoring

2010-11-25 Thread Mark Watts
y the remote server, onward delivery is monitored by another system that I have no control over. I believe I am limited to monitoring the local mail queue to see if messages are being deferred, and reporting accordingly? The postqueue(1) command doesn't appear to generate output in a format pa

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