How to configure a mail server to send nagios notifications

[jdalrymple]

No apology necessary, I just use analogies to try to help with my descriptions.

Did that clear everything up? Are you now able to use your SMTP of choice to send notification E-mails? I have personally used the tutorial I shared earlier and found that it works easily.

[Jessuzz94]

I will try, if it works for all the people that comment the tutorial, should be with me too, Thanks!

[ssax]

Great, let us know if you have any more questions.

[Jessuzz94]

Doesnt work, it tutorial should be work to use the command "echo | mail -s" to test?

[jdalrymple]

If you followed the tutorial exactly - testing would be done by piping the E-mail body through sendEmail, not mail.

[Jessuzz94]

oh okay, im accustoming to use the | mail command

[jdalrymple]

You would use mail if you are mailing from your local MTA. If you're using an SMTP relay (such as gmail or a mail server provided by your ISP) you would need to either do some complicated relay configuration to sendmail/postfix/exim/whatever or use an SMTP specific mail binary such as sendEmail. That is the difference.

[Jessuzz94]

Yeah i sawD:

[jdalrymple]

Since it looks like you're going down the road of using your own mailer and configuring it to relay I'm going to lock this thread and we'll finish this configuration in one thread instead of 2. Will that be OK, or is this thread unrelated to the other?

https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... 671#144476

[Jessuzz94]

have relation, can lock, very thanks!