ALI Collaboration 4.5 can email you if email is broken
Here’s a little feature that some of you may find useful: Collaboration Server 4.5 can send you an email if it can’t connect to the new Notification Service. For those of you that have countless problems with the old Notification Server that shipped with Collab 4.2 and earlier, this is a must-have feature.
Just go to Administration: Select Utility…: Collaboration Administration: Collaboration Notification, and enable Health Monitoring:
It works, too (assuming your SMTP server doesn’t require authentication for internal addresses). Collab is even kind enough to mark the mail as “High importance”:
On the other hand, for those of you that don’t appreciate this new little nugget of functionality, consider this irony: Collaboration 4.5 uses email to tell you when email is broken. Cosmic, man.
