From: Aaron Wolfe (aawolfegmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2008 - 23:34:07 CST

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On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:26 PM, C Thala <cthalagmail.com> wrote:
> We had one of our 4 incoming mail servers get "stuck" for whatever
> reason and queue up mail for a couple of hours before we noticed.
>
> Sort of our fault, we use Nagios but didn't set anything up to check
> mail other than the basic "check if port 25 is open".
>
> Apart from "postqueue -p", does Postfix have any built in mechanisms
> to admin the queue? Or should I use a third party product or whip up
> my own script?
>

If you're using nagios anyway, why not add a check on the queue size?
At least you'll know something is wrong (hopefully) before your users do.

-Aaron

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