simulate complete email

[Jason Martens]

> Let a script run periodically (perhaps via cron) on a remote machine.
> remotemachine gets the email, and parses the message for the timestamp,
> and validates against machine time.
 When the delta is too big, give warning.
> When within a certain time (say, 5 minutes) no email arrives at all,
> give critical.

You can use sendmail to run a script if an e-mail is sent to a certain
user by putting the following in the alias file:

username :| /path/to/script

perhaps you could have the script submit the check result. So it would
look like this:
Nagios check_smtp sends an e-mail to mailcheck at hostname, the receiving
host receives the e-mail and submits a success message to nagios, or
perhaps to the check_smtp command somehow? If there is no response
within the predetermined time (1min maybe) a critical response is
logged. Does that make sense?

Jason


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