Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam
Kenny Dail
kend at amigo.net
Mon Apr 30 03:17:38 UTC 2007
> > 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.
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Kenny Dail <kend at amigo.net>
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