script for testing many accounts email receiving

[pwired]

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Hi

Here is the situation:

For some reason our email client "Email Thunderbird"

stopped receiving emails on one email account. By

coincedence I send an email to this email account and

all of sudden a lot of emails came in. Also "Email Thunderbird"

asked again for entering the password for this email account.

So, I am debugging what I can to find the cause of this

behaviour. Because of this behaviour some really important emails

came in 5 days too late and this can have consequences. I don't

want to bash on "Email Thunderbird" because I trust this email

client. It never let me down so far.

But besides that,

I am looking for a script that will auto send in the morning and in the afternoon

a test email to many email accounts. This to check if all email accounts are still

working correctly in receiving emails.

Can anyone point me to a php script that I could run

on any host that will auto send test emails or maybe

you guys know a better solution ?

[Pete]

It's going to be hard to work it out as it's not clear what the cause of the problem is, but you can rule out send and receive issues using something free like www.uptimerobot.com to ping your SMTP, POP3 and IMAP ports to see if they're responding correctly.

As a special bonus, not only is it a free service, but you can use it to check how often your website goes down (server blips you might not be aware of when you're asleep ).

[pwired]

Tried many scripts but all useless.

Guess cronjob / crontab is the only way.