Notifications by e-mail

[Lonny Selinger]

Becasue if there is no agent bound to port 25 you can't send mail anywhere  ;) You
need something to handle the requests and deliver them to their target ... *mail*
alone does not do this. It might do local injects for you, but if you need to send
the messages beyhond the local machine they wont have anything to get them there,
more then likely they will just queue up until an MTA is started and *then* send
them.

--
Lonny

> I don't have problem in use the "mail command", I just can't start the sendmail
> service.
> Why when I use "mail command" I need running the sendmail service ?
>
> Thanks,
> Hugo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lonny Selinger [mailto:lonny at bangtherockstogether.net]
> Sent: quarta-feira, 2 de abril de 2003 16:33
> To: hugo.rebello at dhl.com
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Notifications by e-mail
>
>
>> The company don't permit to use another MTA (anyone) in the internal
> network. If I
>> want notify the administrators using Nagios, I must use the MTA of
> company.
>> On Nagios, exist some option for it ? Redirect the notification for
> another MTA ?
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Hugo
>
> Then I'd suggest the original option ... redefine the command for
> notifications
> through email. The original is simply:
>
> define command {
> command_name                   notify-by-email
> command_line                   /bin/echo -e "***** Nagios 1.0
> *****\n\nNotification
> Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHo
> st: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time:
> $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s "**
> $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **"
> $CONTACTEMAIL$
> }
>
> the command this is actually using is /bin/mail but you could pipe it to whatever
> you need in order to deliver the mail properly.
>
> --
> Lonny





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