From: Randy Ramsdell (rramsdelllivedatagroup.com)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 09:58:23 CST

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Linux Addict wrote:
> Hello there, I have postfix setup up and running. We are going to a
> very very critical mail box to the setup. I am looking for a best
> monitoring method(I have nagios) so that we dont miss any mails.
>
> Along with regular metrics like monitoring port 25, health check of
> mysql, mail queue and so on, I want to..
>
> 1.send and receive a test mail to the mailbox every 5 minutes, if not
> trigger a alert
> 2. If the mailbox messages count reach certain no, then trigger a alarm.
>
> What I am looking from the group is the best practices to monitor a
> critical mailbox and how to achieve the above two items.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> ~LA
>
We use nagios for this. We send a message and if the server doesn't
receive the message in a certain amount of time, we take corrective
measures.

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