Problem sending emails with mutt and sendmail

[Maclor]

I can send emails as root and when I go into mutt as root it connects to gmail's smtp servers but if I am a normal user (in this case Nagios) it does not connect to gmail's smtp server and will try to send it as nagios@sendemail@gmail.com instead of the sendmail@gmail.com account I have set up. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Maclor]

Tried using sudo hoping it would be a little work around but then it just does root@sendingemail@gmail.com. Really have no idea why it puts the user in front of the email but if anyone knows it should fix it I hope. It only does this for normal users and not root.

[toekneewood]

I think you need to make sure that you have a ".muttrc" file inside your own profile. so if you login as yourself and copy the contents or root's ".muttrc" to your own.

touch ~/.muttrc ; sudo cat /root/.muttrc > ~/.muttrc

the .muttrc should look something like this

set imap_user = "yourname@gmail.com"
set imap_pass = "YOUR-PASSWORD"
 
set smtp_url = "smtp://yourname@smtp.gmail.com:587/"
set smtp_pass = "YOUR-PASSWORD"
set from = "yourname@gmail.com"
set realname = "Your Name"
 
set folder = "imaps://imap.gmail.com:993"
set spoolfile = "+INBOX"
set postponed="+[Gmail]/Drafts"

[toekneewood]

to send a test email. And "email-address@hotmail.com" needs to be a real email address

echo "Test" | mutt -s Hello email-address@hotmail.com

[Maclor]

I think you need to make sure that you have a ".muttrc" file inside your own profile. so if you login as yourself and copy the contents or root's ".muttrc" to your own.

touch ~/.muttrc ; sudo cat /root/.muttrc > ~/.muttrc

the .muttrc should look something like this

set imap_user = "yourname@gmail.com"
set imap_pass = "YOUR-PASSWORD"
 
set smtp_url = "smtp://yourname@smtp.gmail.com:587/"
set smtp_pass = "YOUR-PASSWORD"
set from = "yourname@gmail.com"
set realname = "Your Name"
 
set folder = "imaps://imap.gmail.com:993"
set spoolfile = "+INBOX"
set postponed="+[Gmail]/Drafts"

Thanks. That got me being able to send the email as my user. Now I just have to get it working with nagios sending the notification which shouldn't be too difficult. Famous last words.