mail notifications.

[Kenneth.ray]

I would suggest you do have a real issue. the reason your email comes
over as nagios at localhost. is without the proper setup and or a relay
your address is done this way. Im not a sendmail expert but since the
other suggestions dont work for you how bout i make another useless one.
how bout making the nagios server, its own relay host, in effect ,
faking the system into thinking that there is a relay host..
if that doesnt work, how bout using the switch "-f " in some fashion...
snippet from `man sendmail`
....
-F fullname
           Set the full name of the sender.

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Message: 7
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] mail notifications
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
From: todd.jones at weirslurry.com
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 13:19:56 -0500

I'm not sure I understand how sending my Email to my Internet gateway
would
be of any help.  My Internet gateway is not a device which can relay
mail
to the Internet.  Please let me know if I have misunderstood.

My plan is to use the nagios box as an smtp server.  If this box was on
the
Internet, I believe this would be moot.  However, it is not and cannot
be
on the Internet.

I'm trying to have the Email notifications going from the nagios box go
out
as being from 'nagios at tds.net'.  I know this will work out fine, if I
can
figure out how to do it as I've sent Email from an smtp client in this
manner successfully.

Regards,

Todd Jones
Network Administrator
Weir Slurry
608.221.5805 phone
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Does your corporate network has a Firewall or similar gateway to the
internet. If you do have a FireWall then just route your Email to that
Firewall and use your Nagios box as SMTP server

This is what I do at my place

-----Original Message-----
From: todd.jones at weirslurry.com [mailto:todd.jones at weirslurry.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 10:45 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] mail notifications


This is not really a possibility due to my scenario.  The nagios box is
not
on the Internet, and therefore, does not have an Internet DNS MX
record.  I
cannot relay off my corporate Email.  This is also not desirable, as I
would
like to be able to monitor the corporate Email server and cannot receive

notifications via my cell phone Email account to which I am sending if
the
Email server would be down.

What I can do is send an Email from a client on the nagios box to my
isp's
smtp server as nagios at tds.net (my isp is tds).  This Email is properly
routed to my cell phone Email address.  I'm not sure of a better way to
handle this at this point.




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