Hi guys
I am looking for a script to run in cron and notify the admin, if the mail
queue exceed some predefined level. i have made the script and it working
fine by executing the qmHandle -s command.

But I found out these mail notification is not suitable to alert the admin,
since if the mail queue is huge then notification mail will also wait until
the other mails been delivert. so the solution is not ideal.

What other way I can make this alert? is there any way to alert another
server to send an email? or any other suggestions?

kind regards
Nathan

On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:18:58 +0100, Nightman wrote:

> I am looking for a script to run in cron and notify the admin, if the mail
> queue exceed some predefined level. i have made the script and it working
> fine by executing the qmHandle -s command.
>
> But I found out these mail notification is not suitable to alert the
> admin, since if the mail queue is huge then notification mail will also
> wait until the other mails been delivert. so the solution is not ideal.
>
> What other way I can make this alert? is there any way to alert another
> server to send an email? or any other suggestions?

Does your distro have nail (now known as Heirloom mailx)?
http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html
"Supports SMTP to send messages directly to a remote server."

Alternatively you could consider sending via IM or as SMS message to
admin's cellphone.


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mailx.html seems to be a big thing install compare to the purpose it.

Anyway the sms option will be perfect. I am trying to find how this can be
done from the server.
any help?
Is there any way to pass some data to another server to trigger something to
send an email?

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http://www.remozone.dk
salg@remozone.dk
"Snowbat" <snowbat@geocities.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.03.09.02.30.49.213099@geocities.com. ..
> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:18:58 +0100, Nightman wrote:
>
>> I am looking for a script to run in cron and notify the admin, if the
>> mail
>> queue exceed some predefined level. i have made the script and it working
>> fine by executing the qmHandle -s command.
>>
>> But I found out these mail notification is not suitable to alert the
>> admin, since if the mail queue is huge then notification mail will also
>> wait until the other mails been delivert. so the solution is not ideal.
>>
>> What other way I can make this alert? is there any way to alert another
>> server to send an email? or any other suggestions?
>
> Does your distro have nail (now known as Heirloom mailx)?
> http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html
> "Supports SMTP to send messages directly to a remote server."
>
> Alternatively you could consider sending via IM or as SMS message to
> admin's cellphone.
>
>
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On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:41:38 +0100, Nightman wrote:

> mailx.html seems to be a big thing install compare to the purpose it.

Nail seems to be already installed on my Mandriva 2006 box in place of
Berkeley Mail. Which distro does your server run? Nail might be already
installed or easily installable from the repositories.


> Anyway the sms option will be perfect. I am trying to find how this can be
> done from the server.
> any help?

Lots of scripts at the following URL. Note that some cellphone providers
are known to block incoming SMS from the free international gateways -
test with the admin's cellphone first, or ask in a dk newsgroup about
policies of the local networks:
http://tuxmobil.org/phones_linux_sms.html

Another possibility is to hook a cellphone up to the server and send SMS
through that. You'll be looking for a command line program that can send
SMS on a supported phone. Some ideas here:
http://tuxmobil.org/phones_linux_nokia_other.html


> Is there any way to pass some data to another server to trigger something
> to send an email?

Limited only by imagination.
eg. A remote server could be scripted to log in, check the mail queue, and
send a mail through it's own mail system.


Or you could use an expect script to talk to any mail server you like.
Here's a pair I wrote previously (crude since doesn't handle SMTP error
codes) - the expectscript is called from a bash script.


#!/bin/bash
message="Message goes here."
../expectscript smtp.somenetwork.com 25 target********.com sender********.com "$message"
exit 0


#!/usr/bin/expect -f
set resfile [open /home/USER/tmpfile w]
set targetserver [lindex $argv 0]
set targetport [lindex $argv 1]
set touser [lindex $argv 2]
set fromuser [lindex $argv 3]
set body [lindex $argv 4]
spawn telnet
expect "telnet>"
send "open $targetserver $targetport\n"
expect "220"
send "HELO somenetwork.com\n"
expect "250"
send "mail from: $fromuser\n"
expect "250"
send "rcpt to: $touser\n"
expect "250"
send "data\n"
expect "354"
send "\n$body\n.\n"
expect "250"
puts $resfile $expect_out(buffer)
close $resfile
send "quit\n"
expect "221"
exit 0



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Snowbat wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:41:38 +0100, Nightman wrote:
>
>> mailx.html seems to be a big thing install compare to the purpose it.
>
> Nail seems to be already installed on my Mandriva 2006 box in place of
> Berkeley Mail. Which distro does your server run? Nail might be already

On another server, run #ssh remotehost "mailq" and parse the output.