Re: Email monitoring

[Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>]

Dave Page wrote:
> 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.

Oh, OK.

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