email notifications

[Andreas Ericsson]

kellyjackie at eircom.net wrote:
> I have nagios set up and configured monitoring some machines and
> services. However i cannot get email notifications to work. When
> installing nagios i installed mailx :i.e install apt-get mailx. will
> this work as the web server sending out the emails or will i have to
> set up SendMail or Postfix. If so does anyone have any simple
> instructions on how to do this? Thanks in advance
> 

You'll need some MTA software on the server, yes. mailx only queues
messages for sending by the mta. I'm surprised mailx didn't require
an MTA to be installed though.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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