Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6598C2E0051 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:36:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 86277-09 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:36:44 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from main2.mycybernet.net (main2.mycybernet.net [209.222.63.140]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA5F2E002C for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:36:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from 227-54-222-209.mycybernet.net ([209.222.54.227] helo=crankycanuck.ca) by main2.mycybernet.net with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Jdoj6-0006pq-8k for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:36:44 -0400 Received: by crankycanuck.ca (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0C8655014B; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:36:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:36:39 -0400 From: Andrew Sullivan To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Email monitoring Message-ID: <20080324153638.GA23447@crankycanuck.ca> References: <20080324152456.GC22774@crankycanuck.ca> <200803241526.m2OFQ3527816@momjian.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200803241526.m2OFQ3527816@momjian.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200803/522 X-Sequence-Number: 14641 On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:26:03AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > What is the problem you are trying to solve? > > Email is blocked but there is no notification except "Hey, I haven't > gotten email in a while". Adding a completely different address for that is not really a good monitor. There are at least these problems possible: - routing problems - mail server problems - list server problems - machine failure problems - delivery problems These each need different monitors, I suggest. Let's work on those. A