Monitoring POP3

Collect and monitor the general performance Metrics of POP3.

Protocol Use：POP3

Enable POP3 Service

If you want to monitor information in 'POP3' with this monitoring type, you just need to open POP3 service in your mail server.

1、Open POP3 Service:

以qq邮箱为例【其它邮箱类似】：
    1. 点击`设置`选项
    2. 选择`账号`
    3. 找到开启SMTP/POP3/IMAP选项，并开启
    4. 得到POP3服务器域名，端口号，以及授权码【开启SMTP/POP3/IMAP服务后，qq邮箱提供】
    5. 通过POP3服务器域名，端口号，qq邮箱账号以及授权码连接POP3服务器，采集监控指标

Configuration parameter

Parameter name	Parameter help description
Monitoring Host	Monitored IPV4, IPV6 or domain name. Note⚠️Without protocol header (eg: https://, http://)
Monitoring name	Identify the name of this monitoring. The name needs to be unique
Port	Port provided by POP3
SSL	POP3 If enabled SSL
Timeout	Allow collection response time
Collection interval	Interval time of monitor periodic data collection, unit: second, and the minimum interval that can be set is 30 seconds
Whether to detect	Whether to detect and check the availability of monitoring before adding monitoring. Adding and modifying operations will continue only after the detection is successful
Description remarks	For more information about identifying and describing this monitoring, users can note information here

Collection Metrics

Metrics Set：email_status

Metric name	Metric unit	Metric help description
email_count		Number of emails
mailbox_size	kb	The total size of emails in the mailbox