Your Mail Command

Josiah Ritchie jritchie at bible.edu
Wed Oct 13 14:03:14 CEST 2004


Just out of dull curiosity and wondering if I can learn something or get
some good ideas for improvement, I'm wondering if everyone wouldn't mind
sharing the command they use to send email from nagios out to others.

I'll start:
 /usr/bin/printf "Subject: ** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert -
$HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$\n **\n %b" "***** Nagios 
*****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService:
$SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState:
$SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$" |
/usr/sbin/ssmtp $CONTACTEMAIL$

This is mostly the default modified so that I can use ssmtp, a simple ssmtp
daemon allowing me to send email to others, but it does not receive
anything. Configuration is also incredibly simple. I use it on a number of
my Gentoo boxes so they can talk back to me. I moved the Subject line into
the first line of the body of the message to be compatible with ssmtp.

JSR/


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