notify-by-email without local sendmail?

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

In order to do as you're hoping, that would mean that Nagios would have to
assume the functionality of an MTA.  That's not what it was designed to do.
Sendmail does a pretty decent job of being an MTA, but it tends to send some
folks running for the hills.

If all you want is to have your Nagios server toss all outbound e-mails to a
smarterhost, check out one of these alternatives:

mini_sendmail:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/mini_sendmail/?topic_id=28

nullmailer:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/nullmailer/?topic_id=32

I'm in the process of adding this to the FAQ.

jc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Webster [mailto:greg at intouch.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 1:16 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] notify-by-email without local sendmail?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if it's possible to get Nagios to use an 
> external mailserver to send it's notifications via email. I 
> don't want to put a mail server on the box Nagios runs on if possible.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg Webster
> 
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