Plugin to monitor SMTP->POP3 delay?
Rainer Duffner
rainer at ultra-secure.de
Fri Nov 19 17:15:55 CET 2004
Tedman Eng wrote:
>There is a plugin called check_email_loop in contrib
>
>Sends SMTP MSG_2 / Checks POP for MSG_1
>
>next check:
>Sends SMTP MSG_3 / Checks POP for MSG_2
>
>next next check:
>Sends SMTP MSG_4 / Checks POP for MSG_3
>
>etc..
>
>
>The 'delay' is one check_interval.
>
>This works quite well, we're using it specifically for the purpose you
>mentioned.
>You can set up 2 or 3 different loops to check each of the SMTP relay points
>to make it easier to isolate the bad link in your SMTP chain.
>
>The plugin distinguishes between lost and pending messages as well.
>
>
>
Hey, I tried it and it seems to work quite well !
Kudos to the author ;-)
(I didn't know it existed, FreeBSD doesn't install the contrib-plugins
per default, I think, and I hadn' bothered to research...)
cheers,
Rainer
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