unable to send mail to external id

[Paul Weaver]

> Dear Sir,
> I have configure my nagios in Linux and I am getting email
notification in my local mail id but I didn't
> get mail to my external id(Gmail or yahoo) . can you please help.

Nagios sounds like it is configured fine, it sounds like your local
machine isn't configured to send emails though - nagios uses the native
linux way of sending emails, which often isn't configured.

Try the following:

# echo "Test from nagios"|mail -s Test root
# echo "Test from nagios"|mail -s Test user at yourcompany.com
# echo "Test from nagios"|mail -s Test user at gmail.com

That should send three emails. I would guess the first one works. If the
others don't work, you need to set up your mail transfer agent (exim,
sendmail etc) to point to a "smarthost", your companies internal smtp
gateway.

Alternativly, you could do the following

1) Change your command definition 
define command{
	command_name	notify-by-email
	command_line      *******
}

Replace the end of the line, which probably says something like
| /bin/mail -s "Host $HOSTSTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$!" $CONTACTEMAIL$

With
| $USER1$/sendEmail.pl $CONTACTEMAIL$ "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert -
$HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" 

E.G. (this only works for nagios 2.9)
	/usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios 2.9 *****\n\nNotification
Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost:
$HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time:
$LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" |
$USER1$/sendEmail.pl $CONTACTEMAIL$ "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert -
$HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" 


2) Add "sendEmail.pl" (http://195.50.87.86/~npf/sendEmail.pl) to your
libexec directory, and change the "mailServer" and "from" to be valid
for your local network.



--

"Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else."

Paul Weaver    
Systems Development Engineer
News Production Facilities, BBC News

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