Re: [syslog-ng] [PATCH]: Experimental SMTP destination

12 Feb 2011

      Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu> wrote:
...
The usage is something like this:
destination d_smtp {
         smtp(
           host("localhost")
           port(25)
           mail_from("syslog-ng alert service <noreply@example.com>")
           rcpt_to("Admin #1 <admin@example.com>")
           rcpt_to("Admin #2 <admin2@example.com>")
           subject("[ALERT] $LEVEL condition in $PROGRAM!")
           header("X-Program" "$PROGRAM")
           header("X-Facility" "$FACILITY")
           body("Hi!\nThe syslog-ng alerting service thinks you might be interested in the following message:\n $MSG\n-- \nsyslog-ng\n")
         );
       };
The sysadmin in me does say a pipe to 'sendmail' is probably more 
straight forward, flexible and reliable:
----
destination d_mail {
	program("sendmail -f noreply@example.com admin@example.com admin2@example.com"
		template("From: syslog-ng alert service <noreply@example.com>\nSubject: [ALERT] $LEVEL condition in $PROGRAM!\nX-Program: $PROGRAM\nX-Facility: $FACILITY\n\nHi!\nThe syslog-ng alerting service thinks you might be interested in the following message:\n $MSG\n-- \nsyslog-ng\n.\n"));
}
----

The closing '\n.\n' does the EOF.
...
Further plans include authentication & starttls support. libesmtp
supports both, I just didn't have time to write the neccessary glue code
yet.
A task that should be left surely to the local MSA (mail submission 
agent)?

Cheers

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