Monitor Postfix Mail Queue

[Hari Sekhon]

Scott Miller wrote:
> I'm trying to get Nagios to monitor a local Postfix Mail Queue, with no
> luck.  The service keeps reporting OK: Postfix mailq has 0 messages queued,
> when I know for a fact there are messages in the queue.  I'm wanting to use
> Nagios on this local machine to monitor the queue, and alarm/notify when it
> reaches a certain threshold.  I have modified the check_mailq to the
> following: (retrieved from
> http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/LNX/Nagios+Postfix+Mailq+Plugin )
>
> Still - it reports (OK: Postfix mailq has 0 messages queued), when at this
> time there are 9 messages in queue.
>
> Anyone have any luck implementing this with postfix?  If so, can anyone see
> what I'm doing wrong?  Or if anyone has a better way of doing this, I'd be
> happy to hear about it.
>   

Why don't you just use the standard check_mailq plugin?

I use that to monitor my Postfix mail queues...

-h

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Hari Sekhon
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