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# Email
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As an alternative to HTTP/HTTPS requests, you can "ping" checks by
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sending email messages to special email addresses.
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## Use Case: Newsletter Delivery Monitoring
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Consider a cron job that runs weekly and sends weekly newsletters
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to a list of email addresses. You have already set up a check to get alerted
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when your cron job fails to run. But what you ultimately want to check is if
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**your emails are getting sent and delivered**.
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The solution: set up another check, and add its email address to your list of
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recipient email addresses. Set its Period to 1 week. As long as your weekly email
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script runs correctly, and there are no email delivery issues,
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SITE_NAME will regularly receive an email, and the check will stay up.
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