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Request For Review: Postfix_Exporter listed on main exporter website

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Description

The postfix exporter was an unmaintained exporter, it was forked and replaced by https://github.com/sarab97/postfix_exporter and marked as maintained, this repo also appears to be unmaintained beyond dependabot and has a SPOF owner who is active on other project but does not appear active in this project.

The fact that the exporter still has a bug on it for systemd based systems (most linux situations) makes it unusable.

It's a niche exporter, request review and consider removing it as it gives the impressive postfix stats will be available with this exporter, which it won't be for most systems unless you fork / fix and deploy it yourself

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

No file or test is named in the issue. Start by locating the Postfix exporter entry on the main exporter website and reviewing the linked replacement and reported systemd limitation. Done means the listing is removed or a maintainer-approved decision and update is made.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
48/100

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