Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902E82E0054 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:51:44 -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 18498-06 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:51:41 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CD842E006D for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:51:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id y6so770381tia.5 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:51:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.83.12 with SMTP id k12mr3298624ybl.7.1206377498526; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.96.5 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <937d27e10803240951u69853466m55fc800ec291cad6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:51:38 +0000 From: "Dave Page" To: "Andrew Sullivan" Subject: Re: Email monitoring Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <20080324153638.GA23447@crankycanuck.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080324152456.GC22774@crankycanuck.ca> <200803241526.m2OFQ3527816@momjian.us> <20080324153638.GA23447@crankycanuck.ca> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200803/548 X-Sequence-Number: 14667 On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:36 PM, 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 > We already have perfectly good monitors for most of that, sending alerts outside of the postgresql.org mail infrastructure. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK Ltd: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL UK 2008 Conference: http://www.postgresql.org.uk