Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD7D2E0058 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:41:47 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25928-04 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:41:44 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 457972E002C for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:41:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id m2OFfh008042; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:41:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200803241541.m2OFfh008042@momjian.us> Subject: Re: Email monitoring In-Reply-To: <20080324153638.GA23447@crankycanuck.ca> To: Andrew Sullivan Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:41:43 -0400 (EDT) CC: pgsql-www@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200803/524 X-Sequence-Number: 14643 Andrew Sullivan wrote: > 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. OK, but I have no idea how to monitor those, just email send/receive. -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +