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Old 09-22-2008
Sending Outgoing Emails from Unix Server

the server i have here is a Ubuntu server. it has nagios on it.

after setting up nagios and having it work as it should, i realized at the very end of all my work that obviously nagios will also need to send out email alerts to a set of email addresses that it has in its database.

my problem now is, i have no clue where to begin with this.

i have installed all kinds of mail related packages to get it to work but apparently its not. i am not able to send out emails from the Ubuntu server outside to any email addresses.

does anyone know what I can do to handle this situation? all i need is the ability to send out emails.
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Old 09-23-2008
Are you trying to send mail to some external address or something on your Ubuntu server?
If local, it should just work out of the box without installing anything else (other than a client to actually read the mail that is).
If you want to send to an external address, then it depends on your network; do you have a central mailserver someplace on the local network? If so, just configure your local mailer (might be sendmail?) to use it as it's 'smarthost'.
If you don't have one, the quickest fix would be to configure your local mailer to point at your ISP's smtp server
 
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