xymon-mailack

Ralph, thank you so much. That worked and it actually parsed the incoming
email to the script and it displayed the information to the system.

I want to thank everyone for being so patient with me and my limited skill
set in the Linux world.

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid>wrote:

Trying changing $HOME to the actual location of the xymon home.

Ralph Mitchell
 On Oct 2, 2012 7:25 PM, "Ray Reuter" <user-9df4e3e828ec@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I have the line now looking like this.

xymon:          "| $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack
--env=$HOME/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg"

Mail does not seem to be processed by this either. The mail never makes
it to the Mailbox/new directory though so now I am not sure where the email
is going;

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid>wrote:

I've never used xymon-mailack, but I have used pipe-via-alias working
for email delivery of status reports.

However, I just took a look at the man page for xymon-mailack, and it
seems likely that that alias can use the exact same pipeline as given for
both procmail and qmail:

   | /home/xymon/server/bin/xymon-mailack .......

Ralph Mitchell


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Ray Reuter <user-9df4e3e828ec@xymon.invalid> wrote:

So is this how you made the mailack work for xymon?

I am not sure what my alias should be pointing to?Not sure what your
script does.

Again thank you


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid

wrote:

Sorry, didn't type that bit...  Anywhere in /etc/aliases will do, then
run  "newaliases" to recreate the db files that the mailer actually reads
from.

Ralph


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ray Reuter <user-9df4e3e828ec@xymon.invalid>wrote:

Thank you Ralph, where would the line below go?


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Ralph Mitchell <
user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I don't know about procmail as such, but I have had some success
using email aliases.  You can add a line like this:

xymon: "| /usr/local/bin/email_processor.sh"

then run "newaliases", then any email arriving for the xymon user
gets piped through the script.  Everything up to the first blank line is a
header.  Everything after that blank line is the body of the email.

I know procmail does something similar, I just don't know what, or
how...

Ralph Mitchell


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ray Reuter <user-9df4e3e828ec@xymon.invalid>wrote:

The messages are making it to var/mail/xymon without an issue now.

But the .procmailrc file and rocmail.log file do not seem to either
get engaged in to the process or something else is missing.


On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman <
user-71895fb2e44c@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On 29 September 2012 02:51, Ray Reuter <user-9df4e3e828ec@xymon.invalid>wrote:

I have created the .procmailrc file it looks like this. The file
is in /home/xymon 755 permissions and owned by xymon:xymon I tried the
ownership as root as well.

DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox
LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log
:0
| $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg


When I run it on the CLI using this command

./xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
--debug

I get nothing, it just returns an empty line, and sits there. I
must be missing something.

Yes you are.  The xymon-mailack program expects an email message
on standard input, and if run on the command-line your keyboard becomes
standard input.  You can do something like this:

xymon-mailack --env=... < sample-email

But first you need to put an email message into the file
"sample-mail".  You could create a file like this by temporarily removing
the .procmailrc file (to let messages go into the xymon user's mailbox) and
then sending the xymon user an email, and then copying a mail message from
/var/mail/xymon.  Note that the mailbox file can contain multiple messages
each separated by blank line+"From " (from-space), and you only want one of
them.

J