There's a free utility called SpoolViewer on Declude's website ( http://www.declude.com/articles.asp?ID=100 ) just for this purpose. We run it within a scheduled process and pipe the output to an email for spool status notifications. It serves the dual purpose of a periodic end-to-end mail system test and spool monitor for us.
Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: Katie LaSalle-Lowery To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 5:43 PM 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
