SMTP Server Monitor

[hci]

Does anyone know of an inexpensive service that will do this for me. I want an outside server to test mine every ~five minutes.

1. Test that the server is there.
2. Test that it is responding to DNS requests.
3. Test that its routing email.

Anyone know of anything?

Matthew

 

[jmstacey]

Not off the top of my head. Search google, hotscrits, these forums etc.

If you had a server located elsewhere you could write your own php, shell, or perl script to do exactly what you want.

 

[matrixx]

Hi,

We use www.websitepulse.com I've always found them accurate (sometimes too accurate as it picks up when DA restarts apache)

They can sms alerts for around 10 US cents a time and email/sms multiple contacts.

We monitor pop3, smtp, dns, http and ftp every 3 minutes from LA, Brisbane, Dusseldorf, London and Singapore every 3 minutes (25 tests in total every 3 minutes 24/7/365) and it costs us around $30 per server per month.

Rob