Notify-by-email on Solaris 8 doesn't populate the subject

[Paul L. Allen]

Phil Costelloe writes: 

> [/usr/lib/]sendmail is the default MTA on Solaris 8 - current version
> seems to be 8.11.7p1+Sun.

And on Red Hat, although in later releases it's actually postfix under
the hood.  Most *nixes have sendmail or a wrapper called sendmail around
the real MTA. 

> But if mailx can provide the functionality that Nagios needs (which I
> believe it can for most installations) then I think it's probably better
> to stick with that.

There's no mailx on any Red Hat distro I've seen (might be on 9.0 but
the only guy in the company who installed it deleted it after a couple
of days because of all the problems).  All *nixes have mail and most,
if not all, have sendmail (whether the real thing or a wrapper) but not
all of them have mailx.  If you're on a solaris box and want to insert
a subject header then either will do, but if you're talking about a
change to the Nagios distribution then sendmail would be far more
portable. 

-- 
Paul Allen
Softflare Support 




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