On July 1, 2026, Microsoft will raise list prices across most of its commercial Microsoft 365 products. This is the second consecutive year your email and productivity solution has gotten more expensive, and that has many businesses reevaluating their options.
When an MDaemon service stops unexpectedly — SMTP, Webmail, ActiveSync, or any of the others — every minute of silence is a minute your users aren’t sending or receiving mail. The good news is that you don’t need a third-party monitoring tool to catch these events. Windows ships with a built-in feature,
Performance Monitor, that can watch for a stopped service and send an email alert the moment it detects one.
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This guide walks through the full setup end-to-end: creating the performance counter alert, adding it to a PowerShell script that sends you a notification email, and testing the whole chain so you can be confident it will work when you actually need it.
