Re: Monit local mailserver problem

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 29. jun. 2007, at 09.07, Alper Kalaycioglu wrote:

> Hi; I'am trying to set mailserver options for monit
> Q1) I tried smtp.gmail.com as mail server but I think we can not  
> set the
> authentication information to monitrc. am I right?

That is right.

> Q2) so I set up sendmail on the pc and configured on monitrc as
>
> set mailserver localhost port 25
> set alert      address@hidden
>
> but monit can not connect to the mailserver. here is the message  
> from the
> log
>
> Jun 28 22:05:24 localhost monit[5689]: Sendmail: error receiving  
> data from
> the mailserver 'localhost' -- Resource temporarily unavailable

Try increasing the default timeout to for instance:

set mailserver localhost port 25  with timeout 15 seconds