Nagios flooding outside email addresses

[Jeremy Gibbs]

I have sendmail setup to use our smtp server as a forwarder.  This has been
working great so far.  The only issue I am seeing is, outside email
addresses such as a cell number @vtext.com is having messages sent to it
several times a second; until Verizon finally rate limits the messages.
 This in turn queues up the messages, and a large number come through
again.  This does NOT happen with any internal email addresses.  If I check
the mail log, I can see Nagios sending the message several times a second
to only outside email addresses and only once to internal email addresses.


I am not sure what the issue is.

I will give you a sample of my config


define contact{
        name                            generic-contact         ; The name
of this contact template
        service_notification_period     24x7                    ; service
notifications can be sent anytime
        host_notification_period        24x7                    ; host
notifications can be sent anytime
        service_notification_options    w,u,c,r,f,s             ; send
notifications for all service states, flapping events, and scheduled
downtime events
        host_notification_options       d,u,r,f,s               ; send
notifications for all host states, flapping events, and scheduled downtime
events
        service_notification_commands   notify-service-by-email ; send
service notifications via email
        host_notification_commands      notify-host-by-email    ; send host
notifications via email
        register                        0                       ; DONT
REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL CONTACT, JUST A TEMPLATE!
        }

define contact{
        contact_name              guys-cell
        use                             generic-contact
        alias                           John Doe
        email                          xxx8777xxx at vtext.com
        }


define contactgroup{
        contactgroup_name       network-admin
        alias                             Switches and networking admins
        members                 guys-cell
        }


Thanks


-- 
Jeremy L. Gibbs
Systems Administrator
Utica College
Integrated Information Technology Services
(315) 223-2383
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