Nagios and Sendmail

Someone help connect the dots for me? I know on Nagios you have a
email address setting where you can put you email address in and it is
suppose to notify you when a alarm occurs. SendMail is a email program
that handles email (Maybe this is the part where I'm loosing it. I
don't fully understand sendmail). Anyway I'm suppose to be able to
configure sendmail in some way so that when nagios sends out a email
sendmail it uses sendmail and sendmail then sends it to ? (I'm stuck
here) I would like it to send it to a smtp server(Exchange server) and
let the smtp server handle it from there. Any help would be appricated
to point me in the right direction.

(E-Mail Removed) (Eric) wrote news:9898c48b.0404221106.3459474
@posting.google.com:
> sendmail it uses sendmail and sendmail then sends it to ? (I'm stuck
> here) I would like it to send it to a smtp server(Exchange server) and
> let the smtp server handle it from there. Any help would be appricated
> to point me in the right direction.

"?" = smart host

A smart host is a smtp relay that send the email to the recipient.

in sendmail.mc :
define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp-server.com')

But the configuration depends on your Linux distribution


Regards