Le Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:29:03 -0700, Yang Zhang <yanghates...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 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/ A bit twisted: you could send to a local mailbox on the postfix server, then use procmail or similar via cron to send digests. Seems to me that procmail can do this (multiple bodies feed a new mail). You may also set up a transport for these mails, and a particular transport_destination_rate_delay Xavier Gillard
