[TriLUG] handling email aliases for large numbers of emails

[Jon Carnes]

You are using the mail to monitor the health of various systems? I've
evolved through:
 - having everything email me
 - having everything email an imap account that ran a rule set to
forward messages with actual information that needed to some action
(like low disk space on a mail server, file permission changes on a
locked system, status messages that differ significantly from the norm,
etc..)
 - running SNMP on my systems and having a central NMS server that
monitors the systems and my various networks.

On the whole, centralizing the monitoring (using OpenNMS) seems to work
the best. It's easier to maintain and to monitor the network/systems
health.

Jon
 
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 16:46, Errol Casey wrote:
> I was wondering how other admins, handle aliases that are used to receive 
> cron daemon notices, and other system messages.
> 
> I'm thinking of changing the alias to use one mailbox instead of forwarding 
> to multiple; and then provide some web interface to review the email.
> 
> The other option would be to change cron and scripts, to use syslog and 
> force the logs to a centralized syslog server.
> 
> How have others done it? I've used mhonarc in the past for mail archiving 
> and indexing, but it doesn't provide a search/filter interface.
> 
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