[OmniOS-discuss] email notifications from SMF and FMA

[Jim Klimov]

On September 5, 2017 2:28:19 PM GMT+02:00, Doug Hughes <doug at will.to> wrote:
>wouldn't it be easier to use your local MTA (postfix, sendmail) to do
>this? Then SMF just has to execute /bin/mail or equivalent and your MTA
>can act as an outbound relay agent.
>
>Sent from my android device.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Johan Kragsterman <johan.kragsterman at capvert.se>
>To: omnios-discuss <omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com>
>Sent: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 3:44
>Subject: [OmniOS-discuss] email notifications from SMF and FMA
>
>Hi!
>
>
>I need to send mails from SMF to a remote SMTP server, and want/need to
>include auth credentials.
>
>
>I know how to use the SMF service to send the mail.
>
>
>I know how to get the user/passwd into encode_base64, but how do I pass
>it on to the mail? As well as the port. I guess the port would look
>like this: root at mailserver.com:465, would it?
>
>
>But the rest...?
>
>
>I've seen Peter Tribble been blogging about these features, but not
>exactly how it would look like to pass on the credentials to your mail.
>
>
>Best regards from/Med vänliga hälsningar från
>
>Johan Kragsterman
>
>
>Capvert

Not sure: you're most interested in such notifications when something has failed. This state can preclude running an external submission program on the local system, or having it queue-dequeue your message.

But generally (e.g. to forward user mails or logs/events summaries posted from app servers and other systems especially in highly volatile development setups where connectivity and remote services are not 100% granted) it is often convenient to have dumb programs post to localhost:25 and a real MTA/MSA repost that - often to a common org mail relay that is properly known in worldwide DNS and has secure setup to pass offsite recipients' antispams.

Jim
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