I'm curious if anyone has already done this.
We have just implemented Exim at our offices where we currently have about
4800 users. They don't know it yet (the calm before the storm), but they
have new email addresses using the domain of what the new company will be.
Mail works, been tested etc... everything is cool... of course if the
users don't know about that mail, they aren't using it ether.
It will be about another week before most users are informed of their new
email addresses and they start letting the cat out of the hat.
I would like to put together some materials that will be made available
via a series of webpages that will provide the users with info
like:
What our mail blocking policy is.
What spam blocking measures do we use, and what to do if you get spam.
Not getting email, I would like them to be able to search for a failed
message which will be updated on an hourly basis and stored in daily
buckets.
and the purpose of this message, the ability to Test a mail address...
I've seen the RBL checker pages where you can input an IP or hostname and
it will tell you if it is on that or some other RBL block list.
I would like to create a page where they can enter in the basics of a
message and submit it to see what our mail server will do with
that type of address. Kind of like exim -bh but from a script.
From Address:
Remote Server:
Helo String:
To Address:
The page would then assign them a tracking number and would send the
request to the mail server to be run as a test to see what response the
server gave to the query. The result would then be sent back to the
central web site where the user could see the results sometime a few
minutes later.
I realize this wont check for everything and it is a bit of a stretch to
think that many users would have a clue what any of this means, but
I do think it would be useful for the first line help desk people since
they would have access to the failed message logs which does have
the information and could then verify if a block we had, or a white list
we have added makes a difference without the mail staff having to do all
the tests.
Just curious if anyone has already done something like this and might have
something that I could look at to see how you did it.
I orginally thought of using exim_checkaccess but that doesn't provide
enough feedback. I think I will need to use exim -bh and do a fake mail
message... Not 100% sure of this as of yet as I just tried it and didn't
get what I thought I would get. Will have to check the archives for some
examples of how a full on the command line test is done without additonal
user input (non-interactive)
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Kevin W. Reed - TNET Services, Inc.
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