thoughts for a mail forwarding nagios check

[Walter Justen]

Have found two plugins on Nagios exchange that can check an email loop.

check_email_loop

and

check_email_delivery

I'm happy to work on it. Will test both plugins parallel and will see
which one fits best.


regards
Walter


On 12/02/2010 06:05 AM, seth vidal wrote:
> Not sure if we already have one of these but I was thinking about it
> after the thing on monday with the forwards being screwed up.
> 
> a test account is setup pointing to an imap server somewhere.
> we send an email to the account at fp.o every 10 minutes. The mail contains
> a uuid generated for each mail.
> 
> the script checks to see if there is a mail in the imap folder
> containing that uuid. If not it starts a nagios warning.
> 
> Surely someone else has written this test already, right?
> 
> if not - does someone want to work on it? It's a specific thing to test
> and a finite project to work on, i think.
> 
> 
> -sv
> 
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