>That is, would the http check give me any better monitoring of whether SIMS >is functioning as a mail server than just the ICMP ping?
Until I fixed a problem running SIMS in an odd MacOS configuration, I used this exclusively to check if SIMS was running. Since then, I guess I still do out of habit. I found it to be a very reliable indicator that SIMS was working even though making an http connection yields no real evidence that SIMS is actually sending/receiving mail; I just discovered it to be a perfect correlation in every instance that I tried it (several times a day for a month or so) - no http = no worky at all, http-good = SIMS-working. The ping will not help you at all. In all cases, when SIMS had gone south due to the MacOS going south, I could still get a ping echo. KIM there are times when SIMS takes a while to "answer" an http query so there should be some mechanism to wait but still time-out if you are trying to automate this. Stefan Jeglinski ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
