Re: [exim] Need Help

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On 16/12/11 09:45, John Burnham wrote:

>> I need a script, or help doing one.
>>
>> I need a script that sends me an email when qeue is bigger than 2.500
>> emails.
>>
>> Can anyone help me ?
>>
>
> Totally untested and before I've finished my coffee, but here's some pseudo code
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> MSGNO=$(/path/to/exiqgrep -b * | wc -l)
>
> if [ $MSGNO -gt 2500 ]; then
>
> do some stuff like sending mail
>
> fi


Rather than writing a script, you could just stick this in a cron job:

if [ `exiqgrep -c|awk {'print $1'}` -gt 2500 ]; then echo "Large Mail
Queue"|mail -s "The Subject" therecipient@???; fi

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