ok, I get the service and not the host email from dead.letter. My mistake. Here's the host one: From nagios Fri Jan 9 16:12:31 2009 Return-Path: <nagios> Received: (from nagios@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id n09ECVcx011087 for $; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:12:31 +0200 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:12:31 +0200 From: nagios Message-Id: <200901091412.n09ECVcx011087@localhost.localdomain> To: $ Subject: ** $ Host Alert: host1 is DOWN ** ***** Nagios ***** Notification: I will try to see the error in command. I already use a modified command define command { command_name notify-host-by-email command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "Host: $HOSTNAME$\n $CONTACTEMAIL$\n" |cat >>/tmp/testfile } and I get in the log file just: Host: host1 $ Host: host1 $ Host: host1 $ So I guess that nagios is not getting right the $CONTACTEMAIL$ macro substitution. I don't know exactly the inner works that means that if it's correct to define a host and use a template for providing the contact group and from the contact group nagios can extract the email addresses and put them in $CONTACTEMAIL$ Also, the services are not notified also; the same happens (the email sustituted from $CONTACTEMAIL$ seems to be $???). Thank you, Alex <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Marc Powell <<a href="mailto:marc@ena.com">marc@ena.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"> On Jan 9, 2009, at 4:52 AM, alex alex wrote: > Subject: ** Service Alert: ITM_M._Ciuc/is_alive is OK **" </div>This is a service alert. <div class="Ih2E3d"> > Somehow it seems that no user address is found (or the address $ is > used ). Also, the mail log says the same thing: > </div>> define contact { > [snip] <div class="Ih2E3d">> host_notification_commands notify-host-by-email > service_notification_commands notify-service-by-email > register 0 > } > > define command { > command_name notify-host-by-email </div>This is not the commnad{} used for service alerts (look for notify- service-by-email). My expectation is that you have a typo at or near $CONTACTEMAIL$ there. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>