Mail Flow.... Exchange server

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Luis Fernando Lacayo
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 1:31 PM
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Mail Flow.... Exchange server
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I have a question and asking for some advice.  I have an Exchange
server
> and one of the windows admins who controls the exchange servers, would
> like for me to have Nagios check an individual mailbox by sending and
> email, receiving the email and deleting the email from the mailbox.
> basically he wants to make sure that mail is flowing both in and out
of
> the exchange servers.
> 
> Is anyone checking anything like this? Is he out of his mind? any
ideas
> are welcome.

check_email_loop.pl in the nagios-plugins contrib/ folder works like a
charm.

$ ./check_email_loop.pl 
check_email_loop 1.1 Nagios Plugin - Real check of a E-Mail system
========================================================================
===
ERROR: Missing or wrong arguments!
========================================================================
===
This script sends a mail with a specific id in the subject via an given
smtp-server to a given email-adress. When the script is run again, it
checks
for this Email (with its unique id) on a given pop3 account and sends 
another mail.

--
Marc


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