From 593043778a32d290540d34d3642c4709d4ecae42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Akritidis <43294513+cakrit@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:47:03 +0200
Subject: Instructions for simple SMTP transport (#6870)

Adds info on how to use msmtp as an alternative to sendmail, in order to have a simple MTA configuration for sending emails and auth to an existing SMTP server.
---
 health/notifications/email/README.md | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'health')

diff --git a/health/notifications/email/README.md b/health/notifications/email/README.md
index 92916d192a..bf03887ac0 100644
--- a/health/notifications/email/README.md
+++ b/health/notifications/email/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# email
+# Email
 
 You need a working `sendmail` command for email alerts to work. Almost all MTAs provide a `sendmail` interface.
 
@@ -33,4 +33,26 @@ Where `[ROLE]` is the role you want to test. The default (if you don't give a `[
 Note that in versions before 1.16, the plugins.d directory may be installed in a different location in certain OSs (e.g. under `/usr/lib/netdata`). 
 You can always find the location of the alarm-notify.sh script in `netdata.conf`.
 
+## Simple SMTP transport configuration
+
+If you want an alternative to `sendmail` in order to have a simple MTA configuration for sending emails and auth to an existing SMTP server, you can do the following:
+
+- Install `msmtp`.
+- Modify the `sendmail` path in `health_alarm_notify.conf` to point to the location of `mstmp`:
+```
+# The full path to the sendmail command.
+# If empty, the system $PATH will be searched for it.
+# If not found, email notifications will be disabled (silently).
+sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp"
+```
+- Login as netdata :
+```sh
+(sudo) su -s /bin/bash netdata
+```
+- Configure `~/.msmtprc` as shown [in the documentation](https://marlam.de/msmtp/documentation/).
+- Finaly set the appropriate permissions on the `.msmtprc` file :
+```sh
+chmod 600 ~/.msmtprc
+```
+
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