mailq

goal

monitor the mail activity

units

see below

parameters

there is 5 parameters

mailq

if sendmail cannot deliver its mails (too heavy load, or destination not available) it put the mail in a spool on disk.
"mailq" is is the number of mail waiting in the spool.

dest

if you are using mailing-lists, the mailq indicator is no more accurate. It's better to count the number of people, waiting for a mail

mta

the number of mail sent by sendmail/postfix/..., during the last minute

pop

number of pop connections, during the last minute

imap

number of imap connections, during the last minute

more info

• man mailq

warning

pop and imap servers do not have standard syslog messages, so the module filter may not work on your system. In this case, please send me a syslog extract, so I can change the filter.

author

Eric Gerbier eric.gerbier@tutanota.com
licence : GPL

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