Below is an explanation from upstream [1]. They won't add this feature anyway.
[1] Thread: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/monit-dev/2011-02/msg00008.html ----- Forwarded message from Jan-Henrik Haukeland <h...@tildeslash.com> ----- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:55:35 +0100 From: Jan-Henrik Haukeland <h...@tildeslash.com> To: skirpic...@gmail.com, The monit developer list <monit-...@nongnu.org> Subject: Re: [monit-dev] Suggestion to implement sendmail interface for monit Hi Sergey I think you argue quite convincing against this feature yourself in the discussion thread you refer to. I agree with all your points and may only add this; Delivering alert mails to an external server is a sound principle incase the server should have a e.g. a disk crash. Ten years ago it may have made sense to add this feature, but in todays cloud and virtual servers environment doing local alert mail delivery is becoming a corner case. So, no we will not add this feature and even if we got a patch for it I'm not sure we would include it. Best regards On Feb 21, 2011, at 5:44 PM, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: > Hello, > > What do you think about using local MDA for sending alerts? See > e.g. debian whishlist bug [1]. > > So, instead > set mailserver ... > we can use as an alternative (and fallback solution if mailservers are > inaccessible) something like > set sendmail_path "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" > > How it looks? > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/613532 ----- End forwarded message -----
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