Re: Email monitoring

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> 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.

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