Email Server

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

If I understand your question correctly, you have no problem with mail
alerts being delivered to the local Nagios host, but you'd like to have them
forwarded to another host.  Normally one would send to
user at somehost.example.com or user at example.com.

If that doesn't work for you, it means your MTA is mis/unconfigured.
Options:

1. Configure your MTA (typically Sendmail).  Many sysadmins don't care much
for Sendmail, so unless you're already versed in tweaking it, you could be
in for a long haul.  (Quick wins:  Do a "grep -i smarterhost
/etc/sendmail.cf" to see where you can set the smarterhost, and set the Dj
macro to how you want your sending domain to look like.  Other Sendmail
admins out there might cringe at this suggestion, however.  ;)

2. Replace the MTA with one that you know, and configure that properly.

3. Replace the MTA with a stripped-down one that merely forwards to a
smarterhost.  One such option is nullmailer.

HTH.

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vance Duke [mailto:vance.duke at imaginuity.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 7:42 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Email Server
> 
> 
> 
> Is there a way to stipulate an SMTP server for the 
> notifications other than
> the Local Host that Nagios is running on?  I would like to be able to
> specify it either by IP address or domain name.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Vance Duke
> Technology Manager
> 
> Imaginuity Interactive, Inc.
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