[mrtg] Re: How to measure with MRTG a round trip time for an e-mail

[Pierre Journel - Yahoo]

You could automatically send an e-mail from a corporate mail system
with a time stamp in the subject to an e-mail address that auto-replies
on the Internet, then when you receive the auto-reply you compare the
time stamp on the subject and the time of reception and that's it!! 

Does this sound that strange??? ;-)

That would be VERY useful because it will allow me to monitor closely
my Internet mail gateway which is very busy. That way I would be able
to say to the management exactly when we had some performance problems.

Right now I do this manually, on one of my PC I have a small batch
program running every 2 hours that send a message time stamped to the
Internet and when I receive the reply I can check the delay.


Pierre.

--- Brian Johnson <brianj at nvc.net> wrote:
> How on God's green earth could you do anything like this?
> 
> Brian 8^|
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch
> [mailto:mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch]On
> > Behalf Of Pierre Journel - Yahoo
> > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 11:47 PM
> > To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
> > Subject: [mrtg] How to measure with MRTG a round trip time for an
> e-mail
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I would like to be able to measure how long it takes for an e-mail
> to
> > go from my internal corporate e-mail system to the Internet and
> back
> > and, of course, graph the results with MRTG.
> > 
> > There are some auto-reply addresses on the Internet that will reply
> to
> > any message sent to them.
> > 
> > I think it should be possible to script it with Perl but I was
> > wondering if anybody tried to do something like this before. In
> fact
> > I'm pretty sure I\m not the first to come up with this "brillant"
> idea
> > ;-) !!
> > 
> > Please point me in the good direction (if any!),
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Pierre.
> >  
> > 
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