OTBR: Is mail really getting through

[Dhawal Doshy]

John Schmerold wrote:
> Systems like Nagios do a fine job of making sure that an SMTP server is 
> up, however it does not confirm mail is flowing. This morning, something 
> was causing Postfix to throw "450 Server configuration problems" 
> rejections (I think policyd died), a quick reboot solved the problem.
> 
> I want to know about this before the phone rings.
> 
> To me: a logical solution would be a program that sends emails every 10 
> minutes to itself through a relay, then checks its account via POP3 to 
> make sure it got the message. If it doesn't get the email with 5 minutes 
> it starts alerting me through SMS, fax, phone call whatever.
> 
> Anyone know of such a beast?
> 
> BTW: OTRB is OT But Related

check_email_loop.pl in the contrib directory of the nagios-plugins 
distribution is the beast.. give it a try..

- dhawal