You can set more mail servers with the "set mailserver" statement by separating them with coma, see more details in the manual: http://www.mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#setting_a_mail_server_for_alert_messages
You can also set event queue - in the case that the delivery will fail, the alert will be retried later: http://www.mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#event_queue Regards, Martin On May 16, 2012, at 6:59 PM, sukbir singh wrote: > Dear Martin, > Yes I will go with gmail as my first option. Because I saw > monit have the option to set other email mail servers. I have tried the EHLO > commands below is what I see > > 250-AUTH LOGIN > 250 -SIZE 20480000 > 250-HELP > 250 AUTH=LOGIN > > This was done based on telnet to port 1000. If I use the second mail server > as backup and in case my first one fails(gmail) then how about the from email > settings in monit will still be my gmail is it? Thank you. > > Regards, > Shai. > > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Monit send email not working > Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 08:41:27 +0200 > To: [email protected] > > Shai, > > are you sure your mail server listens on port 1000? Are you sure it supports > SSL? > > What you'll get back if you do this: > > telnet <you mailserver> 1000 > > If you'll get the SMTP server response, you can try "EHLO <hostname>" to get > the list of supported features. > > If you have problem with your mail server - what is the reason to not use the > Gmail when you tried to configure it and it works for you? > > Regards, > Martin > > > On May 16, 2012, at 6:23 AM, sukbir singh wrote: > > Dear Martin, > In addition to that I have tried monit validate I get this. > > Sendmail error: 504 PLAIN authentication is not permitted by this server. > Aborting event > > By adding using sslV2 then I get this > monit: Error setting cipher list 'ALL:!ADH:!LOW:!EXP:!MD5:@STRENGTH' (no > valid ciphers)Cannot open a connection to the mailserver > 'mail.******.com:1000' -- Operation now in progress > No mail servers are available > Aborting event > > Using sslV3 I get > monit: Openssl engine error: error:1408F10B:SSL routines:func(143):reason(267) > Cannot open a connection to the mailserver 'mail.****.com:1000' -- Success > No mail servers are available > Aborting event > > Using tlsv1 I get > Sendmail error: 503 Bad sequence of commands > Aborting event > > What could be the problem I tried all combination even with port 25 still > could not get it through. > > Regards, > Shai. > > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Monit send email not working > Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 19:59:46 +0200 > To: [email protected] > > Hello Sukbir, > > please can you provide your current configuration which doesn't work? You > mentioned the Gmail worked, the problem is with your other mail server now. > How your "set mailserver" looks like? > > Regards, > Martin > > > On May 15, 2012, at 7:29 PM, sukbir singh wrote: > > Dear Martin, > Is there any solution regarding my other mail server which > are still not able to send the alert emails? Thank you. > > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Monit send email not working > Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 09:17:53 +0200 > To: [email protected] > > You need to enable TLS with gmail mail servers: > > set mailserver smtp.gmail.com port 587 > username "MYUSER" password "MYPASSWORD" > using tlsv1 > > Regards, > Martin > > > On May 14, 2012, at 6:40 AM, sukbir singh wrote: > > Dear Martin, > If I use gmail I get this error. > > Sendmail: error receiving data from the mailserver 'smtp.gmail.com' -- > Resource temporarily unavailable > > Then if I use another different mail server I get this error > Sendmail error: 504 PLAIN authentication is not permitted by this server. > > I think some thing is wrong on my configuration because it could not be all > the mail servers are having problem right? > > Regards, > Shai. > > > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Monit send email not working > Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 21:33:03 +0200 > To: [email protected] > > Hi, > > as the error message suggest, the problem is with the sender address, which > is rejected by your mail server. > > To fix it, you can override it this way (replace the "[email protected]" > with your address): > > --8<-- > set mail-format { from: [email protected] } > --8<-- > > Regards, > Martin > > > > On May 13, 2012, at 6:27 PM, sukbir singh wrote: > > Dear All, > I am monitoring a java application which listen on port 8000. > This is how I have set the rule > > check process commServer8000 with pidfile /var/run/wrapper.commServer8000.pid > # check your app pid > if failed port 8000 # if you want to check your app that listen on port > 9000 > then alert > > Must I put the 8000 and the HTTP? > > If I remove the HTTP it works fine but my email sending is having problem > below are some of the error I keep getting > > monit validate > 'commServer8000' process is not running > Sendmail error: 550-Verification failed for <monit@localhost> > Aborting event > monit: Start or stop method not defined -- process commServer8000 > > > monit validate > 'commServer8000' process is not running > Sendmail error: 535 Incorrect authentication data > Aborting event > monit: Start or stop method not defined -- process commServer8000 > > I have set my mail server as this SET MAILSERVER mail.***.com PORT 26 > USERNAME "user1" PASSWORD "passwd". 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