Antwort: Re: E-mail Message

[Brandino Andreas]

Maybe i am replying too late....
You can find perl scripts that forward your mails to specific smtp
server (the mta you have already have!).
So you just replace the command in nagios - nothing more ;)


Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 5:03:58 PM, you wrote:

> nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net schrieb am 12.04.2006 15:43:26:

>> Because the Security Policy.
>> We cannot have two MTA in the same network.
>> 
>> There is another problem using the MTA with Nagios. When I try send 
>> e-mail to Nextel e-mail, it doesn´t working because the Nextel check if 
>> the source e-mail exist.
>> 
>> So, I have two problems.

> I suggest you first accumulate some knowledge about *nix
> architectures like Linux and MTAs (aka Mail Transfer Agents).

> There needs to be some mechanism to supply mails from a host
> to the smtp-server. On Unix architectures this is done by
> the MTA, which is usually sendmail. But then, it is not necessary
> to have the sendmail daemon process running and listening on the
> the smtp port, you can just have it run locally and forward
> locally submitted mails to your main smtp server.

> What you want to do is read the sendmail manual and learn how
> to configure your local MTA correctly.

> But what you are directly asking for is not possible. Neither Nagios,
> nor any other unix service implements its own smtp engine - this would
> be quite stupid and a big waste of ressources since EVERY *nix/Linux
> machine has at least a local MTA - or is majorly misconfigured.

> SMTP-Server != MTA

> And you should re-evaluate people in your security department who say
> "more then 1 SMTP server is a security risk". They obviously don't have
> much of a clue regarding security and how SMTP servers work ;)

> regards
>         Sascha

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