On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:09 PM, SorinS wrote:
>> I was wondering - can monit send alerts to a plain file as opossed to
>> sending an email? In my prod environment email is disabled.
>> Does anybody think this would be a usefull feature?
>
>Send the mail to pipe alias. You can do anything you want with the
>mail as input there, especially as you can specify the format of the
>messages in monit. If standard tools like procmail aren't enough for
>you, see Dan Bernstein's mess822.
Sounds good, but doesn't monit connect directly to the port (25 normally) of the server specified in the monit config file? Even a local delivery to your own server would go through your MTA...which might be down, or not running.
Tom.
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