Error message when I start nagios

[Philipp Snizek]

Hi

I've looked for notification setups for email alerts in the
documentation, however I could not find an answer to what I've been
looking for.

I wanted to set up email notification in nagios and hoped configuring
the email address in contacts.cfg would be enough. As it seems it's
not. 

The notify-by-email in misccommands.cfg doesn't seem to work:

define command{
        command_name    notify-by-email
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios
*****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService:
$SERVICEDESC$\nHost: n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" |  -s "**
$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$
**" $CONTACTEMAIL$
        }

So I put in front of /usr/bin/printf a sendmail command sending the
mails to my account. The alert emails did come in but were unreadable
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What am I doing wrong?

Thanks 
Philipp
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