---
name: "mailexporter.conf"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "prometheus-mailexporter"
version: "1.0+git20190716.c60d197-1+b23"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mailexporter.conf"
---

# mailexporter.conf(5)

export metrics about mail server functionalty

## NAME

mailexporter - export metrics about mail server functionalty

## GENERAL OPTIONS

**monitoringinterval** Interval betwteen subsequent probing attempts for one external server

**startupoffset** Delay between starting the monitoring-subroutines per server

**mailchecktimeout** Timeout until mails are considered "didn't make it"

**disablefiledeletion** \<false\|true\> Disables the mailexporters function to delete probing mails if filesystem access should be restricted to avoid spamming the log with warnings; defaults to false, i.e. detected probing mails are deleted, and can be ommitted if unneeded

## SERVER-OPTIONS

**name** name for internal prometheus-metric **server** SMTP-server to use **port** port to use on Server for SMTP **login** login name on server (leave empty together with passphrase to disable authentication) **passphrase** SMTP-login-password (leave empty together with login to disable authentication) **from** From-Header of monitoring-Mail (e.g. for filtering) **to** address to deliver to **detectiondir** Maildir in which to look for monitoring-mail

## SEE ALSO

[mailexporter(1)](/mailexporter/1.md)