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Just noting that I've been wanting the same thing. Would also be nice if the output of a script could be used to populate a variable in System Monitoring.
I run something like the following on mail hosts:
#!/bin/bash
EMAIL="mymail@example.com"
MAXV=29
declare -i QNUM
declare -i QNUM2
QNUM=`mailq | /usr/bin/tail -n1 | /usr/bin/gawk '{print $5}'`
if [ $QNUM -gt $MAXV ]; then
# wait a few seconds and check again
sleep 9
QNUM2=`mailq | /usr/bin/tail -n1 | /usr/bin/gawk '{print $5}'`
# if queue is still over maxv, mail warning
if [ $QNUM2 -gt $MAXV ]; then
QSD=`qshape deferred`
echo -e "Mail queue at `hostname` has $QNUM2 messages \n $QSD" | mail -s "ALERT: Mail queue" $EMAIL
fi
fi
SRO Software
There is a mail que monitor in webmin, other, 'system and server status'. I've never used it but it looks like it would monitor the over all server que. Not per mail box but at least you would get notified and could search for the culprit from there. I'm sure you've tried it but thought I'd mention it just in case.
Thanks! No idea why I didnt see that. I monitor dozens of services and sensors with the status module so theres no excuse :).
Nice it supports Sendmail, Postfix and Qmail too. I am going to test it against my current crons and see how well it works.
I have been planning to update scripts to check the state of the queue, not just the size so its not triggered by legit mailing lists, but a sufficiently high number combined with a throttled MTA catches a queue with tons of deferred messages.
SRO Software