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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2019-10-13 08:36:33 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2019-10-13 08:36:33 +0000
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-# email
+# Email
You need a working `sendmail` command for email alerts to work. Almost all MTAs provide a `sendmail` interface.
@@ -33,4 +33,26 @@ Where `[ROLE]` is the role you want to test. The default (if you don't give a `[
Note that in versions before 1.16, the plugins.d directory may be installed in a different location in certain OSs (e.g. under `/usr/lib/netdata`).
You can always find the location of the alarm-notify.sh script in `netdata.conf`.
+## Simple SMTP transport configuration
+
+If you want an alternative to `sendmail` in order to have a simple MTA configuration for sending emails and auth to an existing SMTP server, you can do the following:
+
+- Install `msmtp`.
+- Modify the `sendmail` path in `health_alarm_notify.conf` to point to the location of `mstmp`:
+```
+# The full path to the sendmail command.
+# If empty, the system $PATH will be searched for it.
+# If not found, email notifications will be disabled (silently).
+sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp"
+```
+- Login as netdata :
+```sh
+(sudo) su -s /bin/bash netdata
+```
+- Configure `~/.msmtprc` as shown [in the documentation](https://marlam.de/msmtp/documentation/).
+- Finaly set the appropriate permissions on the `.msmtprc` file :
+```sh
+chmod 600 ~/.msmtprc
+```
+
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