Plugin to monitor SMTP->POP3 delay?

[Rainer Duffner]

Tedman Eng wrote:

>There is a plugin called check_email_loop in contrib
>
>Sends SMTP MSG_2 / Checks POP for MSG_1
>
>next check:
>Sends SMTP MSG_3 / Checks POP for MSG_2
>
>next next check:
>Sends SMTP MSG_4 / Checks POP for MSG_3
>
>etc..
>
>
>The 'delay' is one check_interval.
>
>This works quite well, we're using it specifically for the purpose you
>mentioned.
>You can set up 2 or 3 different loops to check each of the SMTP relay points
>to make it easier to isolate the bad link in your SMTP chain.
>
>The plugin distinguishes between lost and pending messages as well.
>
>  
>

Hey, I tried it and it seems to work quite well !

Kudos to the author ;-)

(I didn't know it existed, FreeBSD doesn't install the contrib-plugins 
per default, I think, and I hadn' bothered to research...)




cheers,
Rainer

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