[smartmontools-support] E-mail notifier test

Christian Franke Christian.Franke at t-online.de
Fri Aug 8 17:41:59 CEST 2025


Hello,

Narcis Garcia wrote:
> Hello, I've configured smartmontools 7.4 with a /etc/smartd.conf 
> content like this single line:
> /dev/nvme0 -d nvme -H -C 0 -U 0 -m admin at example.net
>
> smartd process is running.
>
> Is there some way I can make smartd sends an e-mail to check it 
> arrives to desired target?

Append '-M test' to the smartd.conf line. The smartd command line option 
'-q onecheck' is also useful for testing new configurations.

See smartd.conf(5) and smartd(8) man pages for more details.

-- 
Regards,
Christian



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