Nagios::Plugin::POP3

Project Notes

Currently only two POP3 mailbox actions are supported: count and delete
* count - counts the number of messages on the server. The messages are not modified.
* delete - deletes all messages on the server (and returns then number deleted)

> nagios_plugin_pop3 --help
nagios_plugin_pop3 0.01

This nagios plugin is free software, and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the GNU
General Public Licence (see http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.txt).

Nagios plugin for POP3 mailboxes

Usage: nagios_plugin_pop3 [ -v|--verbose ] [-h|--host=<host>] [-u|--user=<user>] [-p|--password=<password>] [--count] [--delete]
[ -c|--critical=<critical threshold> ]
[ -w|--warning=<warning threshold> ]

-?, --usage
Print usage information
-h, --help
Print detailed help screen
-V, --version
Print version information
--extra-opts=[<section>[@<config_file>]]
Section and/or config_file from which to load extra options (may repeat)
-w, --warning=INTEGER:INTEGER
Minimum and maximum number of allowable result, outside of which a
warning will be generated. If omitted, no warning is generated.

-c, --critical=INTEGER:INTEGER
Minimum and maximum number of the generated result, outside of
which a critical will be generated.

-h, --host
POP3 Host (defaults to localhost.localdomain)

-u, --username
POP3 Username

-p, --password
POP3 password

--count
Count the number of messages on the server. The messages on the server are not modified.
This is the default action.

--delete
Delete all messages on the server. Counts how many messages were deleted.

-t, --timeout=INTEGER
Seconds before plugin times out (default: 15)
-v, --verbose
Show details for command-line debugging (can repeat up to 3 times)
Currently only two POP3 mailbox actions are supported: count and delete

Count - Counts the number of messages on the server. The messages are not modified.
Delete - Deletes all messages on the server (and returns then number deleted)

THRESHOLDs for -w and -c are specified 'min:max' or 'min:' or ':max'
(or 'max'). If specified '@min:max', a warning status will be generated
if the count *is* inside the specified range.