<blockquote> e-mail alerts are no longer a problem - check out the
rollout-procs.tcl file in acs-tcl/tcl that Andrew Grumet
wrote for Sloan.
</blockquote>
Small aside, but this is slicker than... well, I dunno. But it's pretty slick. Thank you Andrew for sharing this. We've sent spam to real-world email addresses from dev/staging servers during testing one too many times. It's embarrassing.
Basically, it works by renaming the sendmail command on startup. Here's the comments:
####################
Rollout support email procs. These procs help manage differing email behavior on dev/staging/production.
Parameter settings summary:
ns_section ns/server/${server}/acs/acs-rollout-support
EmailDeliveryMode can be:
default: Email messages are sent in the usual manner.
log: Email messages are written to the server's error log.
redirect: Email messages are redirected to the addresses specified by the EmailRedirectTo parameter. If this list is absent or empty, email messages are written to the server's error log.
filter: Email messages are sent to in the usual manner if the recipient appears in the EmailAllow parameter, otherwise they are logged.
ns_param EmailDeliveryMode redirect
ns_param EmailRedirectTo mailto:somenerd@yourdomain.com,mailto:othernerd@yourdomain.com
ns_param EmailAllow mailto:somenerd@yourdomain.com,mailto:othernerd@yourdomain.com
####################
