Have you verified that your MTA is operating correctly? Try sending mail from the command line (echo "test 1" | mail -s "test 1" em...@address.com) and see if that goes through, before you suspect Nagios.
--Matt On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Marc Powell <li...@xodus.org> wrote: > > On Apr 19, 2010, at 10:34 PM, Peter Kranz wrote: > >> It's the default that comes with the .tar: >> >> # 'notify-by-email' command definition >> define command{ >> command_name notify-by-email >> command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios >> *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: >> $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: >> $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time:$LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional >> Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - >> $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ >> } > > Make sure the contact is using 'notify-by-email' as their service > notification command. There have been no reports of this as a bug so I'd > greatly lean toward it being a configuration issue. > > -- > Marc > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > -- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process. COOKIE MONSTER: Boy, I wish I were a sysadmin so I could go to the NJ-PICC Sysadmin Conference! http://www.picconf.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null