mail Test 🔗 link

Hi All,
  Does anybody know a way to test your ability to send mail externally? I want to be able to verify we can send mail to an external email server. Being able to check mail externally would be great also. Does anybody know of a test or script to do this?

thanks

k


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Personally I'd use mailx from the command line on the Hobbit server:

     mailx -s "this is a test" user-f252d49614cf@xymon.invalid

then type in some random junk, followed by a single dot on a line of its
own.  Check your logs for the outgoing message - depending on the OS, that
could be /var/log/syslog, /var/adm/messages, /var/log/mail, etc.  Check the
email server to see if it arrived.

Ralph Mitchell


On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Hanrahan, Kevin <user-645bd845ecbd@xymon.invalid

In a previous company I regularly sent an email to user-4e69ee32f46e@xymon.invalid -
they have kindly set up a service that will reply to you, so you can set
up a script that sends an email out, waits an amount of time (I used ten
minutes) and checks the in-box of the sending address.
 
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	From: Hanrahan, Kevin [mailto:user-645bd845ecbd@xymon.invalid] 
	Sent: 24 November 2008 18:34
	To: 'user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid'
	Subject: [hobbit] mail Test
	
	
	Hi All,

	  Does anybody know a way to test your ability to send mail
externally? I want to be able to verify we can send mail to an external
email server. Being able to check mail externally would be great also.
Does anybody know of a test or script to do this?

	 
	thanks 

	 
	k

	 
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Am Montag, 24. November 2008 19:33 schrieb Hanrahan, Kevin:

When we had BB running, we had a script that would send a mail with an number to an external email address. The email was forwarded back to bbuser at ... and a procmail script keeps the monitor green oder yellow.

Now I'm counting the mails in/out/spam and could raise an alarm if there are no  more spams arriving ;-))

mfg
Andreas Kunberger

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