Zabbix does not send emails

Question

I'm trying to configure zabbix with email notifications. I read many docs about it already, but I must be missing something still, because it doesn't work...

What I have configured at the moment:

• media type: email, with host=localhost, helo=localhost, email=[email protected]
• user with email assigned for all events apart from "not classified"
• sendmail is running on the host
• one remote host is monitored through zabbix_agent - I'm turning it off to cause a trigger to fire
• zabbix panel "beeps" and show the failing check correctly
• nothing is written to the sendmail logs (it does write a message if I try connecting with telnet, so it works in general)
• nothing related seems to be written to the zabbix_server log

What else can I check?

Answer 1

No one was in the group which was assigned to an action. After setting proper groups for notifications, emails are sent out.