That's pretty good. You can (i.e., the royal "you", the OP) do what you want with OpsMgr. If an e-mail didn't get sent - generate an alert. It's pretty easy.
But if you don't have OpsMgr - well, forget my idea. :-P ________________________________ From: Jacob [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Create Rule to notify when a daily email doesn't show in my inbox/folder I have various ColdFusion scripts that run off hours and generate emails when the script has finished. In Outlook, I have a folder call AutomatedScripts. Below this folder, I have a folder and for each script that runs and suppose to send an email. I have a filter to send the email to the correct folder. When I come in the next morning, I expand AutomatedScripts and any folder that is not bold does not have a email in it. I know that script did not run, had an error, or is not finished. I have about 20 automated scripts, so it is not to hard to manage. From: Ben Nordlander [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Create Rule to notify when a daily email doesn't show in my inbox/folder but that is exactly what i'm looking for. a method to detect an absence of an email. I can't be the only dude in town that has this need heh. -BenN On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Carl Houseman <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: A rule requires an inbound message to trigger it. The absence of a message can't cause a rule to fire. You'll need to create a separate watchguard system to monitor the legacy system and send an E-mail if the legacy system hasn't done what it's supposed to do. And then, if the watchguard system isn't reliable, you'll have to create a watchguard for the watchguard, and then, ... Carl From: Ben Nordlander [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 12:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Create Rule to notify when a daily email doesn't show in my inbox/folder I have several emails i get every day that notify when a job is finished; some of these emails come from legacy systems that don't allow much control for me. Does anyone know of a method to create some type of notification in Outlook (probably using rules) that would allow for some extra notification if one of these daily emails don't get sent to me? For instance, i receive a particular email from an email archive product every morning at 7:30am. But if i don't receive it; i would like to create some kind of rule that would implement an action of my choosing (even a script of my choosing) to notify me that i didn't receive that email today. This is especially useful if i'm not at a computer most of that day and i badly need to know about a missed job that my email archive didn't perform today. I've probably over explained this; but i think you guys might get the jist. -BenN ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
