Indeed - that's what I use it for.

TR
 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Katie
LaSalle-Lowery
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 2:44 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] mail delivery testing service?
 
Thanks to all for their suggestions.
 
Sounds like Servers Alive will do what I need.
 
We already have IPMonitor checking the services.  Sunday we suffered an
occurence of mail backing up in the spool.  The services were all running.
POP clients received no errors.  SMTP connects were fine, etc.  HTTP was
working as well.  However, the Declude proc folder in the Spool backed up
250,000 messages (while some did trickle through) between 5:19pm on Sunday
and 8:25am on Monday.  So, the spool count could have been just the alarm
that would have allowed us to catch this before it went so long.
 
Thanks!
 
~Katie
 
 
  _____  

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Rabe
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 7:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] mail delivery testing service?
Download Servers Alive - it's free for up to 10 checks.
 
1.        Do one check to monitor the SMTP service.
2.       Do one check to actually test the SMTP connecting (under TCP
services tests).
3.       Do one check to count the number of files in the Spool folder.
4.       Do one check to monitor the Queue Manager service.
 
 
Have each test send out an alert to the web interface and to a SMPT server
that is not Imail.  All set.
 
 
I have this on 7 machines around the country.  I have them check each other
as well.  This is incredibly easy and affordable (even the paid version).
Travis
 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert
Grosshandler
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 6:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] mail delivery testing service?
 
I believe Alertsite offers this.  We don't use that feature, but we do use
other features, and we're happy.
 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Katie
LaSalle-Lowery
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 3:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [IMail Forum] mail delivery testing service?
 
Hello, 
 
Can anyone recommend a mail delivery testing service?
 
What I want is something that sends a test message through our server every
10 minutes and if the message is not received it will page us.  
 
Thanks, 
Katie
 

Reply via email to