4.7. Notification Service

The notification service is built on top of the mail and messaging services. Notification provides persistent storage of messages, digest processing, automatic error recovery, and expansion of groups into individual recipients.

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When looking for a service to do alerting, consider the differences between the notification service and the lower-level mail service. The mail API is capable of handling simple alerts in plain-text. If you need added features, notification provides these.