How-to debug a NAGIOS-not-sending-email problem ?

[Nagios User]

Is your mail command under /usr/bin/mail or /bin/mail ?

-john

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX)
<svalding at doverchem.com> wrote:
> The first place that I would look would be your mail and Nagios logs. There is probably something in one of them related to your troubles.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: M. Sébastien LELIÈVRE [mailto:sebastien.lelievre at aznetwork.fr]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 11:21 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] How-to debug a NAGIOS-not-sending-email problem ?
>
> Greetings,
>
> I'm experiencing some odd issue with my nagios server.
>
> It dosen't notify by email anymore
>
> When I execute the corresponding command in the nagios (user) shell, I
> receive an email
>
>     A. So it is not postfix nor a system problem, just nagios which
>        doesn't send email
>
> Reload/Restart-ing program (both postfix and nagios) didn't work out
>
> I do not know where to start my investigation
>
> Here are some info :
>
> notify-host-by-email :
>
> /usr/bin/printf "%b" " Nagios \n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE
> $\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo:
> $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" | /usr/bin/mail -s
> "[$HOSTGROUPNOTES$ $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host $HOSTSTATE$ in $HOSTNAME$]"
> $CONTACTEMAIL$
>
>
> notify-service-by-email :
>
> /usr/bin/printf "%b" " Nagios \n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE
> $\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress:$HOSTADDRESS
> $\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional
> Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /usr/bin/mail -s "[$HOSTGROUPNOTES$
> $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service $SERVICESTATE$ in $HOSTNAME$/$SERVICEDESC$]"
> $CONTACTEMAIL$
>
> Best Regards
> --
> M. Sébastien LELIÈVRE
>
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