Receive Test

Mail Flow Monitor checks the service status and also tests that mail is being received. You’ll know if communication stops!

The monitoring server sends a small test email to your mail server using the following alias: MFMusername@yourdomain.com, the test is sent as a normal email which ensures that the same path as any other email is taken. The MX record is resolved and the message is delivered to the server, if there is a problem connecting and delivering the test email to the MX record server the receive test reports a failure. After the test email has been delivered to the MX record mail server the monitoring server will wait one and a half minutes, the server will then connect to your mail server using POP3 to check that the message has been received. If the message is found the monitoring server will indicate that the test is successful, it will then wait another minute and a half and start over. If the message is not found the monitoring server will wait a minute and a half and then it will check for the message again, if the message is still not found the monitoring server will repeat the check until the message is found or the failed threshold is reached. If the failed threshold is reached the monitoring server reports the failed receive service. If you are using MS Exchange please see the “Exchange 2003 Setup Instructions” section of the Configuring MFM document in the download area.