Source Install SMTP Setup

[griff6r]

I am running 22.4 on Ubuntu 22.04 installed by source, not Docker. Which is the best way to setup email to use my internal Exchange Server for smtp relay from OpenVAS? Currently I have neither sendmail nor msmtp installed.

Thanks.

[Lukas]

Install any “sendmail” pipe compatible MTA, so GVM can just deliver via Sendmail-Pipe. Your mail-setup depends in your skills and complexity, almost any MTA provides a sendmail binary for pipe delivery.

You can use postfix or exim as popular MTAs …

[griff6r]

I’m a Senior Systems Engineer at a hospital.

Are there any hooks I need to configure in GVM for this to work, i.e. reconfigure to not use your default web-based URL??

[rippledj]

As an example, here is an example of how to set up the msmtp MTA:

Configuring SMTP for alerts

I am looking at setting up SMTP for alert notifications. Thanks to @bricks I was able to see how the Docker containers can be configured to use msmtp as an MTA. I have some instructions for setting up msmtp MTA for Kali Linux or for the source code install: Greenbone’s gvmd uses a system call to sendmail when alerts are sent. Seems the recommended method is to use msmtp (which is a drop in replacement) so, these instructions should work regardless of whether sendmail is already installed alth…