Hello.

To send email alert to users in Nagios i would have to install postfix right?

i've installed postfix and chose 'Satellite mail system'. I'm not sure what to do. And other questions were asked during the configuration for postfix, i just merely anyhow answered because i'm not quite sure. Anyone can guide me on this?

Initally i tried to send email to hotmails and gmails account but failed miserably. Read a lot of online documents but it ain't getting me anywhere.

Someone here could shed some light on this? I'm new in Nagios so thats why this email thing really got me stucked.

BTW: i'm using ubuntu 9.10 (:

Thank you.

Do you have SMTP server in your network? Through satellite postfix server you can use pre-configured SMTP server to send mail from nagios server.

read below thread similar to your question.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...nagios-820952/

if you want to reconfigure postfix run below command

Still you have question get back to us.

I do not have SMTP server. Is that okay?

Without SMTP server you can not send mail.

If you want to send mail in internal domain you can create your own mail server.

You can use gmail or yahoo smtp server to send mail out side domain. for that you have to configure your postfix server as smart host. google is your friend search in google, how to use gmail smtp to send mail.

HTH

Hmm okays, i will google on that soon.

But just one question, for gmail smtp, do we have to download it from the web?

Thank you

nope just configure postfix service to use gmail SMTP account to send mail.

For your knowledge you require account on gmail and you have to configure certificate, username and password to access SMTP.

let us know your progress on the same.

BOL