Feature request - Emergency mode

[Denis Beauchemin]

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Julian Field wrote:

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>On 28 Jul 2005, at 14:07, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
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>>>Sending mail to warn about mail not being sent. Hmmm.....
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>>Julian,
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>>If you put the mail directly in sendmail's outgoing queue, it  
>>should work fine... unless there is something I don't see...
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>I fundamentally do not approve of generating mail messages that  
>explicitly bypass the scanning. Asking for trouble. All other mail  
>messages generated by MailScanner are done so in an MTA-neutral way  
>(or at least easily configurable). To drop a message straight into  
>the outbound queue I have to generate the entire files myself, rather  
>than just feeding an RFC-822 message to the MTA. I'm not going down  
>this path just for something little like this. It's a lot of work,  
>it's very hard to get right, and you should probably be monitoring  
>using another tool anyway, such as Nagios, Nocol or Bigbrother.
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I agree!

Denis

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