Bill Anderson <Bill.Anderson@bodybuilding.com> wrote:
On Feb 12, 2011, at 16:08, "Alexander Clouter" <alex@digriz.org.uk> wrote:
* Tighter integration with syslog-ng allows for easier troubleshooting: one only has to look at one place
It does not answer "where did my email alert go?" Did syslog eat it? Did the smarthost toast it? Was it lost further upstream?
How is the any different than any other destination? SMS, MongoDB, SQL, etc. all have the same problem if it isn't where it is expected. Even files.
I phrased this badly. My point is that you have to look in the mail logs anyway, any syslog-ng logs is not going to tell you anything a call to the local sendmail binary does not. Cheers -- Alexander Clouter .sigmonster says: Being schizophrenic is better than living alone.