New Xymon Server email

you can configure postfix to use a gmail account. On some distributions it is a setup option. otherwise google it.

I've just spent half my day attempting to get Postfix to function, without success.   My ISP blocks port 25, so I've attempted to setup the TLS relay to my SMTP host, but that doesn't work either.  Gone are the days of just editing a few configs and then everything works.  I've read more how-to's than I want to count, and none actually work.  If Xymon has 'alerts' built-in shouldn't it roll in an actual email relay tool that users can enter their basic SMTP server credentials and it just works?  Can someone offer some sane assistance please?  I'm beating my head against the wall at this point.

Kris Springer

On 1/10/20 7:07 AM, Root, Paul T wrote:

Postfix is the newer mail program.

/etc/postfix/main.cf

You'll want to set myhostname, myorigin, inet_interfaces, my_destination, and maybe relayhost.

They are pretty self expanitory.

You might also need to look at the firewall.

-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon On Behalf Of Kris Springer
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2020 3:56 PM
To: Xymon MailingList
Subject: [Xymon] New Xymon Server email

I just built a new Ubuntu 19.10 server and installed Xymon server on it
using the premade apt package.  I've got working hosts.cfg,
analysis.cfg, and client-local.cfg.  The webpage works fine and client
data flows in and displays accurately.

I've also configured alerts.cfg to email me for everything, but I'm not
receiving any emails in my mailbox.  In the past when I've built a xymon
server box I installed Sendmail that took care of sending the emails
out.  But this is 2020 and I'm assuming something else is built into the
Xymon Server code that does the emailing.  What am I missing here?  Do I
still need to install a separate mailer?

--

Kris Springer


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