Notifications by e-mail

[Tom DE BLENDE]

OK, so here's what I think is the best solution if Sendmail really is
a problem (even when only accepting connections from 127.0.0.1). Use
the only SMTP server that is available in your company. Instead of
sending the mail to a local MTA, I suggest using a MUA that allows the
usage of a remote SMTP server.

This being said, I can advise you to use Pine. In your Pine config,
you can specify what SMTP server to use. However, native Pine cannot
be run in CLI mode. Therefor you need to patch it first with the patch
you can find at
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/info/outgoing.html, and
then recompile it.

Afterwards just su to the user Nagios runs as, and fill out the
"smtp-server              = <No Value Set> " in the Pine config. 

Test if it works by sending a normal CLI email when your sendmail is
not running:

echo "boo !" | pine -I ^X,y -subject "Test" your.email at dhl.com

If that works, change your email notification commands to use Pine
instead of mail.

Hope this helps.

Patrick Lambooy wrote:
> 
> Sure you can send email thru another smtp server but still send mail has
> to be installed and working for the forwarding to the other smtp
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Allen
> Firstenberg
> Sent: woensdag 2 april 2003 22:42
> To: Hugo Rebello
> Cc: 'Nagios Users (E-mail) ' (E-mail); lonny at bangtherockstogether.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications by e-mail
> 
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:37:33PM -0300, Hugo Rebello wrote:
> > 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 ?
> 
> The short answer is that the "mail" program passes the mail to sendmail
> for delivery.  It does not do mail delivery itself.  Sendmail is
> responsible
> for trying to send the mail and retrying if there are delivery problems
> instead of relying on "mail" to keep running.
> 
> I do not think you can train "mail" to send to an SMTP agent on another
> machine.  See an earlier message for alternatives, but as noted there,
> there are issues with assuring the receiving machine gets it.
> 
> Allen
> 
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