NAME

Nagios::Plugin::POP3 - Nagios plugin for checking POP3 Servers

VERSION

version 1.001

SYNOPSIS

Installs the nagios_plugin_pop3 command that can be used as:

> 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.

For example, if you have a process that sends an email to a pop3 mailbox once per day, you can get nagios to check the mailbox for a single message (and delete all messages) every day via:

nagios_plugin_pop3 -h myhost -u myname -p mypass -c 1:1 --delete

DESCRIPTION

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)

METHODS

run

Run the plugin

SEE ALSO

Nagios::Plugin

AUTHOR

Patrick Donelan <pdonelan@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Patrick Donelan.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.