* Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao (pmcaragao-ag@yahoo.com) wrote: > Hi, > > I have Debian sid running on a standalone laptop. exim4 is my MTA, Yahoo the > smarthost, and fetchmail pulls mails from Yahoo and Gmail via POP3. > > Today I had the unpleasant surprise that Yahoo changed the canonical name of > its SMTP relay server, and mails I wrote during the day were bounced back by > Yahoo. As I map my login name to my Yahoo account name via > /etc/email-addresses, exim4 kept trying to relay them to Yahoo, bounce back, > same story... Result: all mails were frozen in exim4. After changing Yahoo's > canonical name in /etc/exim4/passwd.client, I forced delivery of the frozen > messages and had hell to edit one by one, to remove exim4's headers, and > resend them. > > I realized that I should be monitoring exim4 logs for errors, so that I'd know > when a message is frozen. > > Would anybody have recommendations of lightweight monitors for exim4 logs, > something appropriate to a standalone machine with a single user ? > > Thanks for your attention > Paulo I have a package in Debian called Geximon (it's a gnome version of eximon), it won't alert you of frozen messages but it will display them in the main window. It also is not a daemon, but I may add an option for alerting to the presence of frozen messages at some point, if there is any interest. -- David Watson (GPG Key ID: A7D6AE79) Lugmaster, Programmer, Bass Player http://planetwatson.co.uk/blog http://liverpool.lug.org.uk IM(Jabber): dwatson@planetwatson.co.uk
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