Re: Postfix Status check?

Carmine Rizzo <Carmine.Rizzo@ecmwf.int> writes:

> I unsuccessfully looked for a simple mail server status command, that
> would return some standard format output such as: "the mail server is up
> and running" (I need a standard output to feed automatically my
> monitoring station with).
>
> Can anybody help?
>
> If there is no such command, any suggestion for a workaround that would
> still give me some sort of standard format output?

Set up a test account and send mail with a unique identifier there, the
..forward file can be used to pipe the mail into a software that software.

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Matthias Andree