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by **Pete** » Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:42:28

Hi All,

Just wanted to say a big thank you to all who keep this
site going and share their knowledge.

My manager hit me with this one so I thought I'd throw it
out there and see what happens.

Full Exchange 2000 site. I would like to test on an hourly
basis if our external email is coming in. Obviously, I
would like to automate this and be alerted if the mail
does not arrive. Any ideas where to begin with this?

Thanks in advance,

Pete

by **Neil Hobso** » Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:51:45

You could monitor your Exchange connectors via the Tools / Monitoring and
Status area of ESM.

Or perhaps send a regular message to one of the echo or bounce services

which executes on the server on an hourly basis via the scheduler. The
script could use your address as the sending address, so that replies go
back to your mailbox.

--
Neil Hobson
Messaging Consultant

http://www.silversands.co.uk

Quote:> Hi All,

> Just wanted to say a big thank you to all who keep this
> site going and share their knowledge.

> My manager hit me with this one so I thought I'd throw it
> out there and see what happens.

> Full Exchange 2000 site. I would like to test on an hourly
> basis if our external email is coming in. Obviously, I
> would like to automate this and be alerted if the mail
> does not arrive. Any ideas where to begin with this?

> Thanks in advance,

> Pete

by **Pete** » Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:48:53

Cheers Neil, thanks for the promt response.

Pete

Quote:>-----Original Message-----
>You could monitor your Exchange connectors via the

Tools / Monitoring and

>Status area of ESM.

>Or perhaps send a regular message to one of the echo or
bounce services

write a small script

>which executes on the server on an hourly basis via the
scheduler. The
>script could use your address as the sending address, so
that replies go
>back to your mailbox.

>--
>Neil Hobson
>Messaging Consultant

>http://www.silversands.co.uk

>> Hi All,

>> Just wanted to say a big thank you to all who keep this
>> site going and share their knowledge.

>> My manager hit me with this one so I thought I'd throw
it
>> out there and see what happens.

>> Full Exchange 2000 site. I would like to test on an
hourly
>> basis if our external email is coming in. Obviously, I
>> would like to automate this and be alerted if the mail
>> does not arrive. Any ideas where to begin with this?

>> Thanks in advance,

>> Pete

>.

by **Lurc** » Fri, 13 Sep 2002 03:40:00

You could use BLAT for windows and have it send an email to a bouncing
server.

> Cheers Neil, thanks for the promt response.

> Pete
> >-----Original Message-----
> >You could monitor your Exchange connectors via the
> Tools / Monitoring and
> >Status area of ESM.

> >Or perhaps send a regular message to one of the echo or
> bounce services

> write a small script
> >which executes on the server on an hourly basis via the
> scheduler. The
> >script could use your address as the sending address, so
> that replies go
> >back to your mailbox.

> >--
> >Neil Hobson
> >Messaging Consultant

> >http://www.silversands.co.uk

> >> Hi All,

> >> Just wanted to say a big thank you to all who keep this
> >> site going and share their knowledge.

> >> My manager hit me with this one so I thought I'd throw
> it
> >> out there and see what happens.

> >> Full Exchange 2000 site. I would like to test on an
> hourly
> >> basis if our external email is coming in. Obviously, I
> >> would like to automate this and be alerted if the mail
> >> does not arrive. Any ideas where to begin with this?

> >> Thanks in advance,

> >> Pete

> >.

by **Rich Matheisen [MVP** » Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:56:54

>Just wanted to say a big thank you to all who keep this
>site going and share their knowledge.

>My manager hit me with this one so I thought I'd throw it
>out there and see what happens.

>Full Exchange 2000 site. I would like to test on an hourly
>basis if our external email is coming in. Obviously, I
>would like to automate this and be alerted if the mail
>does not arrive. Any ideas where to begin with this?

Get a "shell" account at an ISP and write a small script to send mail
to a non-existant address at your site. You can write another script
to read the NDR from the ISP account's mailbox. If you don't get a NDR
in, say, a half hour then send another message to your pager's SMTP
address.

--
Rich Matheisen
MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
MS Exchange FAQ at http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm

by **Ed Woodric** » Sat, 14 Sep 2002 02:56:56

Subscribe a PF to a active mail list on the Internet and watch the PF
activity. Many mail lists will send many messages per hour.

Quote:> Hi All,

> Just wanted to say a big thank you to all who keep this
> site going and share their knowledge.

> My manager hit me with this one so I thought I'd throw it
> out there and see what happens.

> Full Exchange 2000 site. I would like to test on an hourly
> basis if our external email is coming in. Obviously, I
> would like to automate this and be alerted if the mail
> does not arrive. Any ideas where to begin with this?

> Thanks in advance,

> Pete

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