Mon does not require a local sendmail server, in the traditional sense of client-server. That is, you don't need to be running sendmail in daemon mode, listening on port 25, to use mon to send email for alerts. What you do need is a copy of sendmail, but when it is invoked through mail.alert, it will contact whatever SMTP server(s) are listed for the addresses you are trying to send mail to. Most likely this will be a remote SMTP server. -- I don't know too many people that run mon on their mail servers.
Part of the confusion is no doubt caused by sendmail itself, which is a single monolithic binary that is both a client, a server, an alias generator, a mailqueue admin tool, and I think it can also wash your car with the right sequence of command arguments. More modern MTA's like qmail and postfix are designed in a more modular fashion to avoid this confusion, and the attendant security risks. andrew On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Joseph Shaw wrote: > Hi Chris > > I was under the imression that Mon could only use a local sendmail server > (eg. Mon and sendmail have to be on the same server). If there are options > that will send mail alerts through another host running sendmail on the > network, then those command line options are what I'm looking for. Any clue > where to find these options? Thanks > > Cheer, Joseph Shaw _______________________________________________ mon mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon
