note dwm042 [RatKing],<br><br> It's far more than a nice idea that will not work. Just work in a place where hundreds of scripts send out thousands of emails a day -- I've had more than one job with those parameters -- and the alternative is not only desirable but eventually necessary. Doing systems administration via email trail is a way to waste alerts, fill email boxes and waste admin time.<br><br> No on-the-job script should ever send out an email alert. It should alert a monitoring tool, such as the aforementioned Nagios. A higher end layer of software, or a help desk, can decide to alert admins *if necessary*. This is the kind of thing that a smart shop can automate and a foolish shop will drown admins in electronic paper.<br><br> Things get missed in floods of spam. So the smart thing to do is stop the spamming, consolidate the reporting, and push the alerting to a decision making layer. Status messages can then be consolidated in a web interface, as they should be.<br><br> 865339 865432