Re: [smartmontools-support]Alerting emails also under Windows XP when smartd runs as windows service???

[Christian F. <Chr...@t-...>]

Hi,

>Does smartd send also alerting emails under Windows XP when run as a windows 
>service and the option "-m ADDR" is used?
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Yes. The blat mailer (http://blat.sourceforge.net/) is used by default.
Install Blat.exe in smartd.exe dir or PATH.

Prior to first use, it must be configured for your outbound mailserver 
by e.g.:

  blat -install mailserver.mydomain sender.name@mydomain


As an extension, Windows smartd displays an error message box if the 
first ADDR is "msgbox" or "sysmsgbox".


>I do see a lot of messages in the event log of my WXP machine, but wonder 
>whether emails can be send by smartd.
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BTW: By using "-l local0", a smartd.log file is written instead of event 
log entries.


>If so, how can I test whether the daemon is really able to send emails?
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Add "-M test" to smartd.conf and reload service ("net pause smartd & net 
continue smartd")


Reading configuration from stdin is useful for simple tests, e.g:

  echo /dev/hda -m user@somewhere -M test | smartd -c - -q onecheck


Hope this helps,

Christian