From 1248dd22ea037fcab134ee835b04b532ee1bee88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C4=93teris=20Caune?= Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 11:55:55 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about keyword filtering in Docs / Email --- templates/docs/email.html | 6 ++++++ templates/docs/email.md | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/templates/docs/email.html b/templates/docs/email.html index 5224d741..16923fa7 100644 --- a/templates/docs/email.html +++ b/templates/docs/email.html @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@

As an alternative to HTTP/HTTPS requests, you can "ping" checks by sending email messages to special email addresses.

Email address for pinging via email

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By default, SITE_NAME will consider any email received at the displayed address as +a "success" signal. You can also configure SITE_NAME to look for specific +keywords in message's subject line to decide if the message is "success" +or a "failure" signal. You can set up the keywords in the +Filtering Rules dialog:

+

Setting filtering rules

Use Case: Newsletter Delivery Monitoring

Consider a cron job that runs weekly and sends weekly newsletters to a list of email addresses. You have already set up a check to get alerted diff --git a/templates/docs/email.md b/templates/docs/email.md index 8aaa1cde..195ac5e6 100644 --- a/templates/docs/email.md +++ b/templates/docs/email.md @@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ sending email messages to special email addresses. ![Email address for pinging via email](IMG_URL/emails.png) +By default, SITE_NAME will consider any email received at the displayed address as +a "success" signal. You can also configure SITE_NAME to look for specific +keywords in message's subject line to decide if the message is "success" +or a "failure" signal. You can set up the keywords in the +**Filtering Rules** dialog: + +![Setting filtering rules](IMG_URL/filtering_rules.png) + ## Use Case: Newsletter Delivery Monitoring Consider a cron job that runs weekly and sends weekly newsletters