[hobbit] alerts - pointing at mail server

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Mon Oct 31 17:49:02 CET 2005


On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:24:32PM +0000, richard kennard wrote:
> However - no mail arrives. I'm sure the reason is that the server 
> doesn't know where to send them - I can't seem to find anywhere in the 
> hobbit config files where I can tell it about my local smtp server.
> Do I need to be configuring sendmail on my hobit server or?

Hobbit just calls the "mail" utility on your system - often that in turn
invokes sendmail to actually deliver the mail.

So yes, you need to configure mail on your box for Hobbit to deliver 
alerts via e-mail.


Henrik




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