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Thanks for the responses. My configuration was OK. My confusion was that I thought you should get emails for the existing errors everytime the error is found. I now know that there is a lot more configuration to control how emails are sent out so you are not flooded with errors that you already know...

Currently the nagios logs use the unix timestamp. Can I configure nagios to use utc instead? Something like 2017-01-22T07:39:32Z instead of [1485070772]?

I've seen the perl code to convert timestamps to human readable but I don't want to do this step.

A person on our team is getting nagios email notifications. I matched my config to their's in the client.cfg file and reloaded nagios. However, I'm not getting any emails. I used /bin/mail from the command line to send email to myself and that worked. Is there some other config that I need to change...