Mail Notification

Mail notifications (also known as Mail Relay) allow you to send email from the Security Gateway. You can send email interactively or from a script. The email is relayed to a mail hub that sends the email to the final recipient.

Mail notifications are used as an alerting mechanism when a Firewall rule is triggered. It is also used to email the results of cron jobs to the system administrator.

Gaia supports these mail notification features:

• Presence of a mail client or Mail User Agent (MUA) that can be used interactively or from a script.
• Presence of a Sendmail-like replacement that relays mail to a mail hub by using SMTP.
• Ability to specify the default recipient on the mail hub.

Gaia does not support these mail notification features:

• Incoming e-mail.
• Mail transfer protocols other than outbound SMTP.
• Telnet to port 25.
• E-mail accounts other than admin or monitor.

Configuring Mail Notification - Gaia Portal

Step	Description
1	In the navigation tree, click System Management > Mail Notification.
2	In The Mail Server field, enter the IP Address or Hostname of the mail server. For example: mail.example.com
3	In the User Name field, enter the user name. For example: user@mail.example.com
4	Click Apply.

Configuring Mail Notification - Gaia Clish

Description

Use this group of commands to configure mail notifications.

Syntax

• To configure the mail server that receives the mail notifications:

  set mail-notification server <IP Address or Hostname>

• To configure the user on the mail server that receives the mail notifications:

  set mail-notification username <User Name>

• To show the configured mail server and user:

  show mail-notification server username

Important - After you add, configure, or delete features, run the save config command to save the settings permanently.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
server <IP Address or Hostname>	The IP address or Hostname of the mail server, to which Gaia sends mail notifications. Example: mail.company.com
username <User Name>	The username on the mail server that receives the admin or monitor mail notifications. Example: johndoe

Example

gaia> set mail-notification server mail.company.com   gaia> set mail-notification username johndoe   gaia> show mail-notification server Mail notification server: mail.company.com   gaia> show mail-notification username Mail notification user: johndoe