Re: [monit-dev] Suggestion to implement sendmail interface for monit

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

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