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

[Jorge Gil]

Hi!

I use gmail, and get nagios alerts in my gmail account, but I dont remember
having done anything special to prevent nagios alerts ending up in spam.

After a while I set up a filter in the account to label the nagios incoming
mail, just for my comfort.

I dont think gmail lets you customize its spam filtering rules, but it does
let you mark emails in the spam folder as "not spam" emails. i guess that if
you add the sender address to your contacts, they will have less
possibilities to end up there. maybe also if you do a rule as i did for that
incoming mails, but these are just my happy ideas.

Good luck!
Jorge

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Max Hetrick <maxhetrick at verizon.net>wrote:

>  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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