On Wed 31/May/2017 23:28:58 +0200 Vincent Danjean wrote: > Le 31/05/2017 à 09:51, Simon McVittie a écrit : >> On Wed, 31 May 2017 at 00:20:18 +0000, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: >>> AFAIK, mdadm's default (and maybe only supported, without some custom >>> scripting) way to report a degraded array is email. >> >> Can't it report this via the system log? (syslog, systemd-journald) > > mdadm reported events are usually critical ones. > [...] > > mails from mdadm are really an very important feature for me.
It is enough to have an email client. Of course, an SMTP server, which also provides relaying through a local mail queue, provides client capabilities as a bonus. Yet, a simpler command-line SMTP client, e.g. msmtp, can be configured more easily than a full-blown MTA. Ale
