Having trouble setting up a simple ping monitor

[SpecialK]

I am very fresh to Zabbix and am trying to set up a very basic ping check for one of our servers. I have created a host and an item (icmpping) and the ping check is working great. If I disable ping responses on the server-side, the item response changes correctly to a '0' in the reports. I then created a trigger that says

{testserver:icmpping[,,,,].last(0)}=0

Which I believe should be correct. I'm trying to say, if the last result was a 0.

I then added a new action where the only condition is that Trigger=My Created Trigger and the operation is to send a message to me via text and email.

After I disable pings on the server, the reports successfully change to a 0 but I receive no messages. Where am I going wrong?

[herta]

basics

Very basic, but since you are setting up a new environment, have you
- got e-mail working on your zabbix server (i.e. can you send an e-mail from the command line?)
- configured e-mail in zabbix (Administration -> Media Types)
- configured e-mail for your users in zabbix (Administration -> Users -> (specific user) -> Media)

[SpecialK]

I actually figured out after I posted that I didn't have a mail server running locally. Took care of that and can send from the command line, but having issues wit Zabbix sending still, but at least it's trying now. I'll play with it some more this afternoon and report back.

Thanks for your help.