On Wednesday January 28, AndyLiebman@aol.com wrote: > > For instance, I see that I can enter an email address with the flag -m and > the address. But do I need to specify a program that will send that email? It > looks that way to me. Can I use KDE Mail to do the job? Or do I need to use > something that doesn't involve a GUI? No, you don't need to specify a program to send the mail. mdadm already knows to use sendmail. The --program option is to specify a program that can do other things with alerts from mdadm. e.g. log them, page a sysadmin, send a differently formatted email. etc. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html