Question Fail2Ban: Sendmail

[omexlu]

Hello,

I want to send a email if any jail bans an IP, but i don't have any mailserver installed on my server because i send out emails trought an other server.

How can i send this mail or maybe pass it to an smtp account?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Bitpalast]

Please check this guide: Using Plesk Without the Mail Server
It explains how to use an external mail server instead of a local server.

 

[omexlu]

Hi,

As i understand that, i only need to install this relay option and configure my jail to use sendmail? An then it automaticly use this smtp to send the mail?

 

[Bitpalast]

When you follow the guide, Plesk will use the external SMTP server to send all Plesk notifications. I do not know however, how this will be linked to fail2ban / how you are sending mails when fail2ban blocks an IP, because that is not included in the Plesk event manager. This will probably need a custom solution within fail2ban on your system, independent from Plesk. I am unaware that fail2ban offers such a function, but you probably have found one, else you had not asked about sending mails here.

 

[omexlu]

Yes fail2ban send out via sendmail to i think this doesn't help, maybe i will want to create an action that let do the job by a external phpscript that gets curls

Thanks anyway.