no email notifications

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

Yup.  If you don't use Sendmail, you need to use some MTA.  How else will
the mail get from your Nagios host to another host?

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff McKeon [mailto:jsm at inpro.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 11:40 AM
> To: Nagios List
> Subject: [Nagios-users] no email notifications
> 
> 
> I've got nagios set up and monitoring several systems and services no
> problem.  I am not however receiving any notifications over email.  I
> can't seem to find any error messages about this on the system.
> 
> Since the machine I'm testing nagios on is my personal desktop, I
> previously removed sendmail because it simply wasn't needed.  Is this
> why no mail notifications are going out?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> contents of contacts.cfg:
> 
> ****snip****
> 
> # 'jsm' contact definition
> define contact{
>         contact_name                    jsm
>         alias                           Jeff McKeon
>         service_notification_period     24x7
>         host_notification_period        24x7
>         service_notification_options    c,r
>         host_notification_options       d,r
>         service_notification_commands   notify-by-email
>         host_notification_commands      host-notify-by-email
>         email                           jsm at inpro.net
>         }
> 
> ****snip****
> 
> Contents of contactgroup.cfg
> 
> # 'admins' contact group definition
> define contactgroup{
>         contactgroup_name       admins
>         alias                   Administrators
>         members                 nagios,jsm
>         }
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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