Monitoring for Inbound Emails

Question

Hi There!
I have been asked by a client who recently had an outage of inbound emails
due to corrupted Kasepersky Definitions in GWAVA, that we setup something
that alerts them when new emails have no come into the receive folder from
externally within a 15 minute time frame during working hours.
I am trying to do this in a way that will not completely bog down the system
and not produce too many false positives.
Do you guys have a method you prefer for doing this?
Cheers

Answer 1

On 1/31/2012 3:11 PM, Andre Southgate wrote:
> Hi There!
>
>
> I have been asked by a client who recently had an outage of inbound emails
> due to corrupted Kasepersky Definitions in GWAVA, that we setup something
> that alerts them when new emails have no come into the receive folder from
> externally within a 15 minute time frame during working hours.
>
> I am trying to do this in a way that will not completely bog down the system
> and not produce too many false positives.
>
> Do you guys have a method you prefer for doing this?
>
> Cheers
>
Actually I think Redline can do that.But if you want something else, any
SNMP compliant solution might do the trick.
(Simply sampling the gwia\receive directory of course is prone to false
positives).
Alternatively linux bash it: cron an MAIL command to some internal
address then use fetchmail or getmail to pop it. If it doesn't come
through, do an alert somehow. (What to use in this case is tricky!)