Simple check amount of messages in qmail queue including bulk mail using qread

[Lupker]

Hi folks,

After a SPAM attack I wanted to monitor my mail queue a little better.
Because every SPAM mail contained more than 200 recipients, the qmail-qstat was not efficient.
So I've written a simple script using the qmail-qread, which gives me an estimate of the amount of messages in the queue by reading the amount of lines.

There are some suggestions the mail will not be send because the mailqueue is full, but I guess I will notice when I put this in a cron job every 5 minutes..

Just wanted to share this script:

#!/bin/sh
# Send an email when there are more then 1000 messages in the mail queue
# This is counted by the amount of lines in the qmail-qread output, so it's an indication...

qread="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread"
len=`$qread | wc -l`

if [ $len -gt 1000 ]; then

	#!/bin/bash
	# script to send simple email 
	# email subject

	SUBJECT="WARNING: There are $len messages in the mail queue!"

	# Email To ?
	EMAIL="YOUR@EMAIL.COM"

	# Email text/message
	EMAILMESSAGE="/tmp/emailmessage.txt"
	echo "WARNING: There are $len messages in the mail queue!" > $EMAILMESSAGE
	/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat >> $EMAILMESSAGE
	/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread >> $EMAILMESSAGE
	echo "> This is a chkmailq script..." >> $EMAILMESSAGE

	# send an email using /bin/mail
	/bin/mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$EMAIL" < $EMAILMESSAGE
fi

Gr,
Mark