We had an issue where Processflow emails were not being received and we didn't know because the SMTP server was down. I found this script which I run about every hour that check's to make sure the SMTP server is up; If not then it sends an email to the system - you could also direct to send an email to another server.

http://www.webreference.com/perl/scripts/moniker/

You also need to install some Perl modules before this will work:
* Net::Telnet;
* Mail::Sendmail;
* Getopt::Std;
* Text::CSV_XS;

You can find these at the cpan website.

Don't know why but I couldn't edit the post.

The links on the webpage above for the script didn't work, so here is the script

I'm not trying to be a smart-@$$ but how do you send an email if your smtp server is down?

Ahahahahaha lol, OWNED!!

I was checking to see who was paying attention. :P

That's why I said to a DIFFERENT email server as an option. Usually it would go the local system if you have it setup.

Almost :afro:

Well I had the same question as David. The original post said "send an email to a different server, not through a different server.

I'm glad that's all been cleared up. So now I just need to explain to my clients their need to have two smtp servers on separate physical boxes. :blink:

That's really not a bad idea. I like redundancy - I especially like redundant redundancy. But I think redundant redundant redundancy is just going too far.... :huh:

That's a bit redundant :rofl: