From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 30 08:50:33 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 E93BD16A403 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:50:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B038413C45B for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:50:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDESK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l3U8oM9j071687; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:50:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Kenny Dail" , Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:51:28 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20070429211106.A178.KEND@amigo.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1896 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:50:23 -0700 (PDT) Cc: 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 08:50:34 -0000 > -----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