On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Mihira Fernando <mihirathe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/08/2010 12:33 PM, Yang Zhang wrote: >> >> Are there any extensions to Postfix that can aggregate multiple >> outgoing emails into a single email within some time window? >> >> We're developing an application that runs on multiple hosts and emails >> notifications to us (the developers @gmail.com) whenever something >> goes wrong, via a postfix server. However, we've run into issues >> where the application spews hundreds of such errors in rapid >> succession, leading Gmail to bounce our messages. This is why we're >> interested first and foremost throttling messages, but ideally also >> aggregating messages together into a periodic digest that is emitted >> at most once per minute. Any other (low-effort) solution ideas would >> be appreciated as well. >> -- >> Yang Zhang >> http://yz.mit.edu/ >> > how about writing the errors to a log and email the log via a cron job ?
We were actually considering just tailing our logs for errors, but it's a bit more work because a bunch of the error reporting logic is actually not necessarily logged, and the errors are caught/emails are generated by libraries that we didn't develop. Failing to find other solutions we might opt for this. -- Yang Zhang http://yz.mit.edu/
