Re: Email monitoring

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.

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