Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:51:28 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Kenny Dail" <kend@amigo.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCEEAJCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20070429211106.A178.KEND@amigo.net>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Kenny Dail > Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 8:18 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam > > > > > 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. Obviously. > We built an SMS > gateway. That is one way to do it, there are others. In our case, since we have a number of mailservers, we simply pair them up to monitor each other specifically for mail failures. Ted
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