Sending NAGIOS alerts to Gmail addresses can get your mail server listed as suspect.

Max Hetrick maxhetrick at verizon.net
Thu May 27 23:25:31 CEST 2010


Drew Weaver wrote:

> I noticed that a lot of our mail was ending up in users' junk/spam 
> folder at GMail and it seems that if you send Nagios warning messages to 
> Gmail they somehow assume that your server is malicious and spamming. Is 
> it SOP to use a different SMTP server to deliver Nagios messages?

I'd assume you'd have to take that up with GMail. Or check the spam 
filtering settings on the user accounts. I don't use GMail, but I assume 
there are junk spam filtering rules that you can do to classify mail on 
the settings, like all other e-mail clients and services.

Regards,
Max

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