I'm not generally a big proponent of indiscriminately adding points to E-mail, and this one falls in the gray area. If your backup in located at the same site, I would imagine that very few E-mails will get tagged improperly (reboots for instance, but many other examples as well), however if you have an off-site backup through a different bandwidth provider, I could see more legit mail coming through this way, which would seem less wise to do.
Your suggestion has some merit, however it doesn't account for off-site seconndaries and I can't see how that could be implemented easily without a separate application. I suppose that someone could write one that Declude hands off to which checks your logs for the reboot times and compares that to the time stamp from your backup server. But again, if there was an issue on the Internet between the sender and your primary, and your backup was off site, this wouldn't be a good qualifier for what should have been delivered directly to your primary.
Matt
Paul Navarre wrote:
************ You could write a filter that searches the headers for your backup server's IP address.
HEADERS 3 CONTAINS x.x.x.x
Matt ************
The problem with this is if your primary does go down (rebooting for a patch for example), these points will be added to *all* email until your primary is back up.
I posted just a few days ago asking if it was possible for Declude to check that primary was functional. If so, there could be a test that would add points for any mail sent to the secondary when the primary is functional. I realize that this would require a new version of Declude, but I think it could be really worthwhile. Nobody responded to my last post, so I wasn't sure if there is some reason why this wouldn't work or would be too difficult.
Paul Navarre
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