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diff --git a/health/notifications/email/README.md b/health/notifications/email/README.md index 92916d192..bf03887ac 100644 --- a/health/notifications/email/README.md +++ b/health/notifications/email/README.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# 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 +``` + [](<>) |