If any one know how to send mail alerts from nagios to yahoomail please help me by sending configuration steps

[Marc Powell]

On Mar 9, 2010, at 11:20 PM, Pavan kumar wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> I configured nagios on my linux server and nrpe on my linux clients all the thing is fine i can able to monitor all the clients from my server and locally in my network i can able to receive mail alerts when any service is down. But i need to get all the mail alerts to my yahoomail id but i can't able to configure it. If any one know how to send mail alerts to yahoomail please help me 

As far as nagios is concerned, it's no different than sending an e-mail to any other address. Just specify that address as the email parameter for a contact that's being notified.

Because you're sending mail to the Internet though, you need to follow all of the common rules for sending mail on the Internet. Typically the easiest way to do so is to configure the MTA on your nagios box (sendmail, postfix, exim, qmail, whateveritis) to smarthost mail to your current SMTP server.

If you want to send to Yahoo directly from your nagios box, at a minimum you need to ensure that -
	- the sending mail address is from a valid @domain.com
	- The public IP seen by Yahoo has valid reverse DNS
	- The name presented by reverse DNS resolves back to that same IP (FCRDNS)
	- The public IP seen by Yahoo is not on any blacklists
	- The hostname or HELO name presented by the MTA on your nagios server is a valid hostname.domain.com in the public DNS

Consult the documentation for the MTA you have installed on your nagios box for information on how to configure it for Internet delivery.

--
Marc


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