check_mailq usage

[Subhendu Ghosh]

If you wanted to fork from check_mailq, I would recommend a name like 
check_large_mailq just so we can categorize and not provide confusion.

I guess for smaller installations without large queue sizes, mailq seem to 
perform adequately..

-sg

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Scott wrote:

> 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.
> 
> ---
> 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
> >
> > ---

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