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.
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
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>
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>
> -----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
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