On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 08:58:39AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
it. Yet the "something better" never materialized. When I
had a disk go
wrong lately I was notified by the big ugly legacy system. I had *zero*
notification by all the "better" systems that were given as
"evidence".
Because the "better" systems do not exist. None of the 'smtpd is
legacy"
complainers have actually tried to solve the (remote) notification
problem, none of them actually understand the reliability and operational
constrains, or that being to define message routing (via aliases,
Sure they do. I can't imagine an installation of any size (eg more than 2
systems) not using Nagios, Icigna, or some other alerting system.
If you're in the narrow case between a desktop system and an installation
where real monitoring and alerting is worth it, install an MTA.
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