Notification if Mail Queue Manager pass 100 emails

[Diego.Vieira]

It's possible to get a notification if Mail Queue Manager pass 100 emails?
thanks

 

[yapluka]

CSF will do what you want... among many other things

 

[Diego.Vieira]

CSF will do what you want... among many other things

Thanks much!

 

[cPanelTristan]

You could cron run a script like the following:

#!/bin/bash
if [ `exim -bpc` -ge 100 ] 
then echo "Exim queue at `exim -bpc`" | /bin/mail -s "Exim queue" [email protected]
else
:
fi

The file could be called /root/eximqueue.sh and would need to be executable to run:

chmod +x /root/eximqueue.sh

You could then put it into /var/spool/cron/root file to run every 15 minutes using this command:

*/15 * * * * /root/eximqueue.sh

 

[Diego.Vieira]

You could cron run a script like the following:

#!/bin/bash
if [ `exim -bpc` -ge 100 ] 
then echo "Exim queue at `exim -bpc`" | /bin/mail -s "Exim queue" [email protected]
else
:
fi

The file could be called /root/eximqueue.sh and would need to be executable to run:

chmod +x /root/eximqueue.sh

You could then put it into /var/spool/cron/root file to run every 15 minutes using this command:

*/15 * * * * /root/eximqueue.sh

Thanks a lot!

 

[osirion]

I tried the above script and its setup properly (cron / perms) but its not working. Anyone have something that would work? Im on CentOS...

 

[cPanelMichael]

Have you considered installing CSF instead? It's available at:

http://configserver.com

Thank you.

 

[osirion]

I'm using one provided by my supplier, to move over to CSF is going to be a bit of a headache. Was hoping I could get a bash script going so long though

 

[osirion]

Managed to get my hands on this:

#!/bin/bash

######### Edit here ##########

[email protected] # Set this to your email id to receive alerts on mail queue
_limit=100 # Set the limit here

##############################

clear;
_result="/tmp/eximqueue.txt"
_queue="`exim -bpc`"

if [ "$_queue" -ge "$_limit" ]; then
echo "Current queue is: $_queue" > $_result
echo "Summary of Mail queue" >> $_result
echo "`exim -bp | exiqsumm`" >> $_result
mail -s "Number of mails on `hostname` : $_queue" $_mail_user < $_result
cat $_result
fi

rm -f $_result

Works like a charm. Now I just have one question for someone slightly more advanced than me. Assuming the queue has exploded with spam, above message will just be in the back of the queue - so we would want to force it to be sent before anything else essentially.
From my understanding, we can use the following to force delivery of one message:

/usr/sbin/exim  -M  email-id

Anyone here know how I could extract the email-id from the scripts mail function and then run the above command with it?
Something along the lines of:

_message_id = "'exiqgrep -f root@hostname'"
/usr/sbin/exim  -M  "$_message_id"

 

[cPanelMichael]

Assuming the queue has exploded with spam, above message will just be in the back of the queue - so we would want to force it to be sent before anything else essentially.

Hello

It should send out on the first delivery attempt instead of staying in the mail queue. The mail in the queue typically failed on the initial attempt to deliver the message.

Thank you.