Not receiving notification emails

[tariqondego]

I am not receiving notification emails,even though I have set this up for hosts.The nagios.logs show notification being sent but I am not getting the mails.
Please advise.

[Stuart Watts]

What does /var/log/maillog show at the time Nagios tries to send notifications?

[sreinhardt]

Thanks stuart, that is a great question, as core generally will use the local mailer, that should push email sent to the maillog as well.

[tariqondego]

This is what mailog says:
nagios exim4: ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken.

Please advise.

[slansing]

Is that all it says? Just one line in your current maillog? If so, do you have anything in the archived maillogs in the same directory?

[tariqondego]

Yes this is all it says,same for the archived logs.
Please see attached and advise.

[tmcdonald]

I'm assuming this is on a Debian/Ubuntu system? If so, I'd take a look at these two posts:

http://blog.rebelit.net/67
http://linuxindetails.wordpress.com/201 ... ly-broken/

[tariqondego]

Thanks @tmcdonald for those helpfull posts.The mail.log is clear now.
But still,when I do a testmail its still unsuccesful,and the maillog remains empty.
See testmail below:

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root@nagios:~# mail -v [email protected]
Subject: ola
this is a test ola!!
Cc: 
LOG: MAIN
  <= [email protected] U=root P=local S=384
root@nagios:~# delivering 1X6dGZ-0006iC-WC
R: nonlocal for [email protected]
LOG: MAIN
  ** [email protected] R=nonlocal: Mailing to remote domains not supported
LOG: MAIN
  <= <> R=1X6dGZ-0006iC-WC U=Debian-exim P=local S=1257
delivering 1X6dGa-0006iG-3i
LOG: MAIN
  Completed
R: system_aliases for [email protected]
R: userforward for [email protected]
R: procmail for [email protected]
R: maildrop for [email protected]
R: lowuid_aliases for [email protected] (UID 0)
R: mail4root for [email protected]
T: address_file for [email protected]
LOG: MAIN
  => /var/mail/mail <[email protected]> R=mail4root T=address_file
LOG: MAIN
  Completed

please advise.

[tmcdonald]

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  ** [email protected] R=nonlocal: Mailing to remote domains not supported

There's your problem. You must configure the system to allow sending to remote addresses:

http://superuser.com/questions/384499/h ... il-command

[tariqondego]

Reconfigured exim4,its now ok.