[ossec-list] Re: No SMTP

[Jonathan Hipkiss <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, I can't say I understand it but changing to :

 <smtp_server>localhost</smtp_server>

instead of

 <smtp_server>hostname</smtp_server>

has solved it.

I guess it's some sort of dns issue.


Thanks again for the off topic help.


Jonathan

william maddler wrote:
> tried sending mail to <user>@localhost?
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> jrhipkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> Can no one help me?  I don't want to run an SMTP server on this
>> machine as it adds another security weakness for no reason.
>>
>> On Jul 23, 8:47 pm, jrhipk...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Sorry if this is a stupid question but I've got OSSEC working and I'm
>>> getting alerts to ...ossec/log/alerts however I have no smtp server
>>> running on my server I just use the internal unix mailbox for all my
>>> mail.
>>>
>>> How can I get ossec to send to that?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>       
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