From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 30 03:17:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C87816A406 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:17:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kend@amigo.net) Received: from mx.amigo.net (mx.amigo.net [209.94.64.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E56C113C458 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:17:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kend@amigo.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailtest1.amigo.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6513BEB2 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:17:37 -0600 (MDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amigo.net Received: from mx.amigo.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailtest1.amigo.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id g7nqd4Cd7L4U for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:17:36 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.1.27] (billing.amigo.net [209.94.67.250]) by mailtest1.amigo.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C237E3BE8B for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:17:36 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:17:35 -0600 From: Kenny Dail To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <0674B8B4-EB98-4876-AB35-51D0FD550680@gmail.com> References: <0674B8B4-EB98-4876-AB35-51D0FD550680@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20070429211106.A178.KEND@amigo.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.28.01 [en] Subject: Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:17:38 -0000 > > I'm monitoring systems at the ISP I work at. No, it is not life or > > death > > if a feed goes down for 3 hours and a bunch of people cannot download > > their daily freebsd-questions mailing list fix. At least, I don't > > think > > so. But they do. And as their money that buys the ISP's product puts > > the bread on my table, I have to do what they want. And they want > > instant > > response if there is a problem in the ISP's systems. That won't > > happen if > > the monitoring system's e-mails that get sent out when there is a > > problem > > lie around in a mail queue for an hour waiting for a greylist at the > > cell company to let the messages through. I understand where you are coming from on this, of course email is not the right medium to use for notifying of email failures. We built an SMS gateway. -- Kenny Dail