check_mailq usage

[Scott]

I actually found the same problem... mailq was waaayyyy tooooo slow for 
the counting.. I found running a specified listing of find and wc 
worked the best and was a much faster approach..

Was getting to the point where I was going to run the check out of cron 
and push the data to a text file for nrpe to cat for the status.. only 
problem with that is that its not in real time like mailq or the above 
alternative is.

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Scott Horsley
Netspace Online Systems
On 27/04/2004, at 8:12 AM, Steve Shipway wrote:

>> 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
>
> ---
> Steve Shipway: ITSS, University of Auckland
> Email: s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz  Web: http://www.steveshipway.org/
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