RE: [Nagios-users] check_mailq usage

[Steve S. <s.s...@au...>]

>kol...@bv... wrote:
>
>>1. I use postfix
>>2. I'm on gentoo linux
>>3. mail in queue is actually stored in /var/spool/postfix/ (with LOTS=20
>>of sub-dirs under it)

I've written a whole new check_mailq for postfix here, since it holds =
the
data in a much different way.  forking off to /usr/bin/mailq is much =
slower
since it extracts lots of information about the mails, where we only =
want to
count them (ie, count the entries in the directories and sum).

Our mailq is normally in the 8000-10000 range, and it works well.  Email =
me
if you are perl-aware and want a copy (it's a bit rough to put on public
release)

Steve

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