[Xymon] xymon mail service

[Ward, Martin]

This is more of a generic problem, how to set up a mail server.

At the least we would need to know what UNIX you are using (Solaris, RHEL, HP-UX) and what, if any, mail software you have installed (sendmail, Postfix, Qmail).

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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Milana Malkic
Sent: 24 April 2013 09:15
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] xymon mail service

Hello,

I installed xymon server and xymon clients and everything works fine. Now I want to get mail notification
when something goes wrong. I've added the following lines to my /home/xymon/server/etc/alerts.cfg, but I don't get any mails.

HOST=host1 at domain1.com<mailto:HOST=host1 at domain1.com> SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory,conn
                MAIL minaqva at hotmail.com<mailto:minaqva at hotmail.com> REPEAT=20 RECOVERED

In the /var/log/xymon/notifications.log I found :
Tue Apr 23 08:17:53 2013 host1 at domain1.com.cpu<mailto:host1 at domain1.com.cpu> (173.254.244.156) minaqva at hotmail.com[23<mailto:minaqva at hotmail.com[23>] 1366719473 200
Tue Apr 23 08:37:56 2013 host1. at domain1.com.cpu<mailto:host1. at domain1.com.cpu> (173.254.244.156) minaqva at hotmail.com[23<mailto:minaqva at hotmail.com[23>] 1366720676 200 4449

I've done some researching and I found out that I need to setup mail server on the same machine where is xymon server. I don't know how to do that to work well with xymon, or what mail address should I put in alerts.cfg. I also don't know what mail server is required for xymon.

Please help me.

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