Email Notifications not working

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ceh
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Re: Email Notifications not working

Post by ceh »

It was intially /bin/mail and it did not work so I changed it to /usr/sbin/sendmail and it also did not work.

Which user does nagios uses to send mail because the nagios user is unable to send mail.
ceh
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Re: Email Notifications not working

Post by ceh »

Its the problem with the mail configuration so after configuring postfix with masquerading mails started going with nagios user.
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Re: Email Notifications not working

Post by tmcdonald »

Good to hear!

I'll be closing this thread now, but feel free to open another if you need anything in the future!
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Re: Email Notifications not working

Post by scottwilkerson »

Excellent. Yes, it is the nagios user that sends the mail
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