[Nagiosplug-devel] check_mailq adding age option

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 09/11/09 03:27 PM, shadih rahman wrote:
> check_mailq plugin is great but it does not allow to check for message
> age.  Can we add message age option, so one can check for the following
> scenario.
> 
> message age more than 60 days > 2000 warning
> messages age more than 60 days > 3000 critical

I fail to see what this is for. Messages in a mail queue shouldn't stay
forever in it. Most mailers drop messages after 2-6 days, and it is
expected to have messages waiting in the queue until the expiration
(most common causes are spam and mistyped emails).

However the queue size is a fairly good indication of the failure rate,
as the size is roughly proportional to the number of mails that never
get sent versus the time they can stay in the queue.

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Thomas
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