[chef] Re: Email notification upon success or failure (with logs)

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Maven User wrote:
> Looking over various available cookbooks, searching through the wiki and 
> then good 'ol google - I didn't find a way to incorporate a mailing 
> notification that didn't require additional software to be installed on the 
> client manually.
> 
> What is the typical approach for sending email notification when a 
> chef-client run is complete?
> 
> Are handlers really the only way?
Yes, handlers are the only way at present. Server side notifications may be 
added in a future release of Chef, but there's nothing set in stone at the 
moment.

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Dan DeLeo