Check_mailq always reports queue empty

[Gregory Wong]

Specifying the mail server using the ­M switch seem to have worked. Thanks
Philipp!


On 3/6/08 8:44 AM, "Philipp Geschke" <nagios at pgmail.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Gregory Wong schrieb:
>> > Hi Everyone. I have NRPE running on my Ubuntu mail gateway (referred to
>> > as SMTP) that is running MailScanner, clamav, etc. I am having problems
>> > with the check_mailq command. It doesn¹t seem to be reporting correctly.
>> >
>> > When I run the mailq command (as of about 1 minute ago) there were 10
>> > messages in the queue. They were all MAILER-DAEMON emails so nothing
>> > that would suggest a relay problem. When I run the following command
>> > from SMTP:
>> >
>> >  /usr/local/nagios/libexec/libexec/check_nrpe -H 127.0.0.1 -c check_mailq
>> >
>> > it returns: OK: mailq is empty|unsent=0;10;15;0
>> >
>> > The same thing happens when it is run from Nagios. Yesterday a Exchange
>> > server who the SMTP server relays for went down and we got no
>> > notification that mail started spooling on the SMTP box.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions why this command is always reporting the mailq is empty?
>> > Also, does anyone have any good NRPE scripts that check MailScanner?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
> 
> Did you set the plugin's -M Switch to the mailserver software you are using?
> 
> -M (--mailserver) = [ sendmail | qmail | postfix | exim ] (default =
> sendmail)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Philipp
> 

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