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MAILPING-CRON(1) | Mailping | MAILPING-CRON(1) |
2004-04-15
mailping
0.0.4
NAME¶
mailping-cron - run periodic processing to test email service availability and functioning
SYNOPSIS¶
mailping-cron
DESCRIPTION¶
mailping-cron processes incoming emails, updates status and sends out probe messages.
The idea is to configure multiple email “circuits”, send probe messages regularly, and see whether they complete the circuit and how long it took.
Setting up a circuit¶
If you need non-default sender and/or recipient addresses, create files from and to there, containing the sender and recipient addresses suitable for the circuit.
Testing multiple servers¶
To test functioning of more than one email server, arrange an email alias at a remote site pointing to an address on your server, and set the address of that alias here.
Here's an example of testing a system consisting of two email servers and everything in that path (smarthosts, primary MXs, virus checkers, etc.):
Local address <mailping+that@this.example.com> is delivered with mailping-store to /var/lib/mailping/state/that/incoming/.
Remote address <echo@that.example.com> is an alias that redirects all email to <mailping+that@this.example.com>.
/etc/mailping/that/to is set to <echo@that.example.com>.
FILES¶
/etc/mailping/circuit/from
/etc/mailping/circuit/to
/etc/mailping/circuit/admin
/etc/mailping/circuit/interval
/var/lib/mailping/state/circuit/
/var/lib/mailping/state/circuit/junk/
/var/lib/mailping/state/circuit/broken/
ENVIRONMENT¶
MAILPING_CONFIGDIR
MAILPING_STATEDIR
SEE ALSO¶
mailping-store(1), mailping-success(1), mailping-latency(1)
AUTHOR¶
Tommi Virtanen <tv@havoc.fi>
Havoc Consulting
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2004 Havoc Consulting
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