Instructions for simple SMTP transport (#6870)
Adds info on how to use msmtp as an alternative to sendmail, in order to have a simple MTA configuration for sending emails and auth to an existing SMTP server.
Chris Akritidis committed
Sep 17, 2019 at 13:47 UTC
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-# email
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+# Email
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You need a working `sendmail` command for email alerts to work. Almost all MTAs provide a `sendmail` interface.
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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`).
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You can always find the location of the alarm-notify.sh script in `netdata.conf`.
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+## Simple SMTP transport configuration
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+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:
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+- Install `msmtp`.
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+- Modify the `sendmail` path in `health_alarm_notify.conf` to point to the location of `mstmp`:
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+```
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+# The full path to the sendmail command.
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+# If empty, the system $PATH will be searched for it.
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+# If not found, email notifications will be disabled (silently).
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+sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp"
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+```
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+- Login as netdata :
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+```sh
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+(sudo) su -s /bin/bash netdata
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+```
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+- Configure `~/.msmtprc` as shown [in the documentation](https://marlam.de/msmtp/documentation/).
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+- Finaly set the appropriate permissions on the `.msmtprc` file :
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+```sh
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+chmod 600 ~/.msmtprc
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+```
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