/tags/notifications/ Recent content in Notifications on galvanist Hugo en Mon, 16 Sep 2013 22:13:18 +0000 /posts/2013-09-16-direct-smtp-nagios-notifications/ Mon, 16 Sep 2013 22:13:18 +0000 /posts/2013-09-16-direct-smtp-nagios-notifications/ <p>If you want <a href="http://www.nagios.org/">nagios</a> email notifications but don&rsquo;t want to run a local MTA (like postfix, exim, qmail, or sendmail), you&rsquo;ll need a command-line SMTP client. Such a program can connect to an SMTP server, authenticate, and generate a message based on input arguments and file handles. One such program is <a href="http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/">sendEmail</a> (note, not &ldquo;sendmail&rdquo;).</p> <p>I found myself wanting to use sendEmail with nagios, and I found these helpful resources:</p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Notifications/Notifications-using-ISP-SMTP-server-with-Authentication/details">http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Notifications/Notifications-using-ISP-SMTP-server-with-Authentication/details</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="http://danxlog.blogspot.com/2010/07/nagios-use-external-smtp-server-to-send.html">http://danxlog.blogspot.com/2010/07/nagios-use-external-smtp-server-to-send.html</a></p>