[syslog-ng] [PATCH]: Experimental SMTP destination

[Alexander Clouter]

Bill Anderson <Bill.Anderson at bodybuilding.com> wrote:
> 
> On Feb 12, 2011, at 16:08, "Alexander Clouter" <alex at 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
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