Email Notification using Postfix

Scott Lambert lambert at lambertfam.org
Tue Jun 21 19:39:47 CEST 2005


On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 12:25:07PM -0500, Matt Luettgen wrote:
> > # 'notify-by-email' command definition
> > define command{
> >         command_name    notify-by-email
> >         command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%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/sendmail   -s "**
> > $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$
> > is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$

Try changing sendmail(8) to mail(1).

The manpage for sendmail's sendmail(8) on my system, FreeBSD 4.11, does
not list a -s parameter.  mail(1), on the other hand, does.

-- 
Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert at lambertfam.org



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