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I installed monit on an Ubuntu 18.04 server and I would like to configure it to send e-mails to my personal e-mail address. I heard that I can send them via the installed exim. However, it does not work. As I am new to both mail servers and monit, I am not sure how to fix it.

In /etc/monit/monitrc, I added

set mailserver 127.0.0.1 port 25

and

set alert user@example.com

where instead of user@example.com I use my personal e-mail address.

To test whether it works, I also pasted

check file alerttest with path /.nonexistent
   alert user@example.com

into the file, again with my personal e-mail address instead of user@example.com.

Despite having checked documentations etc., I am not sure what I am missing here.

The e-mails should be sent directly from the server and not via e.g. Gmail.

Chr
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    In general: start by ensuring that your mail server works as intended before you start troubleshooting in Monit. So check the exim logs, confirm that you can connect on port 25 , check is you can send an email message for example from the command-line with the `mail` or `mailx` command etc. – Bob Feb 26 '21 at 14:20
  • Thanks. The issue was indeed that Exim was not sending e-mails. – Chr Feb 26 '21 at 17:29

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