How can I get a notification from my server if the mail queue stops

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Published on 2012-07-03T19:05:19Z Indexed on 2012/07/03 21:17 UTC
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I am using QMail with Plesk 10 on an Apache server.

Occasionally the mail queue stops processing emails - this most recently happenend when an email account got hacked and started sending hundreds of emails.

We did not find out about this until a client of ours contacted to say that their emails were not being recieved, so we checked the mail queue and lo and behold the service had stopped.

In future I would like to be notified when the mailqueue stops.

How can I set something up so the server will run a command whenever the mailqueue stops?

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