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Hello,<br />
&nbsp; I have clients running exchange and their email goes down sometimes because of losing their internet connection. &nbsp;Is there a service that will monitor this? &nbsp;I know dnsstuff.com does this but they said their service is still unreliable and is in beta. &nbsp;I am basically looking for something to make a connection to the mail server periodically.<br />
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Thanks
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Hello,
  I have clients running exchange and their email goes down sometimes because of losing their internet connection.  Is there a service that will monitor this?  I know dnsstuff.com does this but they said their service is still unreliable and is in beta.  I am basically looking for something to make a connection to the mail server periodically.

Thanks

Monitor that email is working

Within Internet message handling services (MHS), a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture. A MTA implements both the client (sending) and server (receiving) portions of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host may also refer to a computer performing the MTA function. The Domain Name System (DNS) associates a mail server to a domain with mail exchanger (MX) resource records containing the domain name of a host providing MTA services.

Email Servers

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical, globally distributed system responsible for associating the name of a computer, service or other resource into an IP address for connecting to the Internet or a private network. Most prominently, it translates domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of computer services and devices worldwide.

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.