[Mimedefang] command line notification of failure of mimedefang or similar

[John]

At 06:36 PM 4/15/2004, you wrote:
>I am currently using swatch to monitor my mail log for clamd errors.
>If mimedefang or clamd stop working I cannot email notify anyone.
>Does anyone use a command-line mailer/script to connect directly to
>another mail server in this situation?

Perl has a mail program module that amazingly allows external smtp servers 
if you can find one that will allow you to mail through.

perl -MCPAN -e "install Mail::Sendmail"  Then read the man page for 
that.  I thought it was pretty cool!


>For cases in which the local mail server is not functioning?
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