Automation of testing pop/imap server connection

Question

Hi Team,
There are over 20 pop/imap server configured in jira and we have to test the connection for each pop/imap server configured everyday manually as part of daily check.

Is there a way to automate this task such that jira admins will receive mail if there is any connection failure?

Thanks,
Rakshith

Rakshith_q8vudh · Answer

I tried with -m option earlier but it was of no use.

--connect-timeout also didnt help much as once curl has connected this option is of no more use but we want the delay after curl has connected and before curl gets disconnected

Is there a way to make curl wait for few secs before it can wait before it fetches the result from the website?
All the options we used till now doesnt actually lengthen the execution time of only curl.

Grigory Salnikov_0hffsd · Answer

Hm, I think it would be better if we use the following options instead: (from manpage) --connect-timeout Maximum time in seconds that you allow the connection to the server to take. This only limits the connection phase, once curl has connected this option is of no more use. Since 7.32.0, this option accepts decimal values, but the actual timeout will decrease in accuracy as the specified timeout increases in deci‐ mal precision. See also the -m, --max-time option. If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
-m, --max-time Maximum time in seconds that you allow the whole operation to take. This is useful for preventing your batch jobs from hang‐ ing for hours due to slow networks or links going down. Since 7.32.0, this option accepts decimal values, but the actual time‐ out will decrease in accuracy as the specified timeout increases in decimal precision. See also the --connect-timeout option. If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. Check this out, it might help.

Rakshith_q8vudh · Answer

I tried with below in the batch script but still facing same problem

@echo off
(curl -u username:password -d "@data.txt" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -k -X POST 
"<base url>secure/admin/VerifyPopServerConnection!update.jspa" 
Sleep 10 )> result.html