On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I have installed nagios and have it monitoring localhost. Next I need > to configure email notifications so it is finally time for me to get my head > around MTAs, this will also be useful (I hope) for other things such as cron > notifications etc. I've followed the nagios quickstart guide at > > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-ubuntu.html > > which at the bottom says install mailx (Postfix) and configure the > commands.cfg file, which is straight forward by itself. However I thought > I'd pause at this point and seek list wisdom on the approach from here. Is > postfix actually the "best" package to use? (no wish to start any wars > here...) and if so/not, which, and presumably some further configurations > are necessary to get some messages going off to my ISP. > > Cheers, > Roger >
postfix is a very good choice IMHO. secure, reasonably simple to configure, good documentation and friendly mailing list. sendmail - the daddy of 'em all but not the easiest to configure. qmail - good reputation and used a lot but written by a "difficult" character. exim - debian uses as standard, don't really know much about it.
