check_mailq usage

[Steve Shipway]

>kollasch.drew at bvrmc.org wrote:
>
>>1. I use postfix
>>2. I'm on gentoo linux
>>3. mail in queue is actually stored in /var/spool/postfix/ (with LOTS 
>>of sub-dirs under it)

I've written a whole new check_mailq for postfix here, since it holds the
data in a much different way.  forking off to /usr/bin/mailq is much slower
since it extracts lots of information about the mails, where we only want to
count them (ie, count the entries in the directories and sum).

Our mailq is normally in the 8000-10000 range, and it works well.  Email me
if you are perl-aware and want a copy (it's a bit rough to put on public
release)

Steve

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