no email notifications

[Mike McClure]

Hi Jeff,

Yes, you need sendmail (or some other kind of MTA) to send mail.

- Mike

> 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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