no email notifications

[Jeff McKeon]

Good point but I didn't see it specified anywhere that an MTA was
needed.  An MTA could have been written into nagios...

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 13:09, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> Yup.  If you don't use Sendmail, you need to use some MTA.  How else will
> the mail get from your Nagios host to another host?
> 
> jc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff McKeon [mailto:jsm at inpro.net]
> > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 11:40 AM
> > To: Nagios List
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] no email notifications
> > 
> > 
> > I've got nagios set up and monitoring several systems and services no
> > problem.  I am not however receiving any notifications over email.  I
> > can't seem to find any error messages about this on the system.
> > 
> > Since the machine I'm testing nagios on is my personal desktop, I
> > previously removed sendmail because it simply wasn't needed.  Is this
> > why no mail notifications are going out?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> > contents of contacts.cfg:
> > 
> > ****snip****
> > 
> > # 'jsm' contact definition
> > define contact{
> >         contact_name                    jsm
> >         alias                           Jeff McKeon
> >         service_notification_period     24x7
> >         host_notification_period        24x7
> >         service_notification_options    c,r
> >         host_notification_options       d,r
> >         service_notification_commands   notify-by-email
> >         host_notification_commands      host-notify-by-email
> >         email                           jsm at inpro.net
> >         }
> > 
> > ****snip****
> > 
> > Contents of contactgroup.cfg
> > 
> > # 'admins' contact group definition
> > define contactgroup{
> >         contactgroup_name       admins
> >         alias                   Administrators
> >         members                 nagios,jsm
> >         }
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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