Sending mails - first post

[Cosmin Neagu]

OK, i have put in /etc/aliases:
/root:           cosmin.neagu at omnilogic.ro, \root/

The email account in Thunderbird has outgoing smtp server: 
mail2.omnilogic.ro:25
Also Lyle Giese gave me some more tips on how to configure 
/etc/postfix/main. This is how postfix are configured now:

/etc/postfix/main.cfg:                                       
//everything else is left unchanged.
/myhostname = mail2.omnilogic.ro
//mydomain = omnilogic.ro/
/myorigin = $mydomain/
/mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_security_options =
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport/
/relayhost =/


/etc/postfix/transport
/omnilogic.ro      :
.omnilogic.ro     :
*                smtp:[mail2.omnilogic.ro]:25/

/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd:
/webmail.omnilogic.ro    cosmin.neagu at omnilogic.ro:***//
/
I have attached the 2 configs that i thing is relevant to Nagios 
host/service configurations.

And regarding your last advice, i have no clue on how to configure my 
email client to check the email account on the nagios machine...don't i 
need a mail server on nagios machine for that?

So...can anyone tell me what is missing, or point me to some 
step-by-step documentation?



***************************************************************************
Just before pressing SEND, Lyle gave me some more hints, and now it 
working, i can receive mails.
These line needed to be added in /etc/postfix/transport:
mail2.omnilogic.ro      :
.mail2.omnilogic.ro     :
*             smtp:[mail2.omnilogic.ro]:25

Thank allot Lyle


Michael Saldivar wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Cosmin Neagu 
> <cosmin.neagu at omnilogic.ro <mailto:cosmin.neagu at omnilogic.ro>> wrote:
>
>     Hello everybody,
>      From what i see from commands.cfg, by default it tries to send email
>     with: /usr/bin/mail -s.
>     But the email ends up in a local folder /var/mail/cosmin.
>     Can anyone help me with some documentation or some advice on how can i
>     make nagios send emails?
>     Thanks.
>
>
> Looks like it is sending mail, and that mail is being delivered 
> locally.   When you configured Nagios to send e-mail, what e-mail 
> address did you tell it to send to?
>
> Also, look for a file called /etc/aliases.  Open it, and see if there 
> is a line like:
>
> root:          cosmin
>
> The name on the left may match the e-mail address you gave nagios, and 
> the aliases file is re-directing that mail to the local user cosmin. 
>  Replace cosmin with an e-mail address on a different domain.  Or 
> modify Nagios to send to a an e-mail address on a domain different 
> than the local machine.  Or configure the e-mail client on your 
> computer to check the e-mail account on your Nagios machine.
>
> -- 
> Mike 
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