xymon-mailack

I have a feeling the machine I ran the telnet from can not deliver the
email but as in the message below it did accept everything i put in the
command.


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid>wrote:

The sequence appears to be

HELO server.domain.com
MAIL FROM: user-4b28831ca997@xymon.invalid
RCPT TO: user-06bef2435736@xymon.invalid
DATA
Subject: this is the subject line
first line of message
second line of message
.
QUIT


I just tried that, and it delivered. with the Subject line among the
headers.  Odd, but it worked...

Ralph Mitchell


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Ray Reuter <user-9df4e3e828ec@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Tried it without the quotes a second ago as well.

250 2.1.5 Ok
SUBJECT: xymon
221 2.7.0 Error: I can break rules, too. Goodbye.
Connection closed by foreign host.


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid>wrote:

Copy for the list, because I forget to select "Reply to All":

I think you probably should not have quotes around that Subject line.

Ralph Mitchell


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Ray Reuter <user-9df4e3e828ec@xymon.invalid>wrote:

 Well we are getting closer. I am now able to telnet to the server. I
tried to send mail to the server but kicked off every time i try to do the
subject line.

[root at xxxcacti2 ~]# telnet XXXXXXXX.xxx.com 25
Trying 10.1.72.168...
Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com (xx.xx.x.x).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com ESMTP Postfix
helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com
250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com
MAIL FROM: user-e6b56f093673@xymon.invalid
250 2.1.0 Ok
RCPT TO: user-238b11cbd81e@xymon.invalid
250 2.1.5 Ok
"SUBJECT: Xymon"
221 2.7.0 Error: I can break rules, too. Goodbye.
Connection closed by foreign host.

I have the .procmailrc file set up as per the xymon man page, still not
sure if the "Mailbox" is a directory or file. and the directory structure
of the xymon home directory looks like this.

drwxr-xr-x.  2 xymon xymon  4096 Oct  2 11:02 Mailbox
-rw-r--r--.  1 xymon xymon     0 Oct  1 12:15 procmail.log
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 xymon xymon   124 Oct  2 11:04 .procmailrc

This feature is one of the most important to the company I work for and
have been trying to get it to work for a couple of days now. We even added
an MX record for the server so mail can be delivered to it directly. Telnet
works locally and remote.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated, you have all been a
huge help so far and this monitoring tool has done wonders for this company.


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Jeremy Laidman <
user-71895fb2e44c@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <user-9df4e3e828ec@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I am using Centos 6.2

By default Centos (aka Red Hat) v6 boxes run postfix (rather than
Sendmail).

During my install I do not remember installing anything as the mail

transport, but the alerting was working right out of the box from day one.

Initially, postfix is configured so it won't accept SMTP connections
from off the box.  So outbound emails will get sent OK, but incoming emails
will not get delivered to the Xymon server.

Test this by attempting to telnet to the Xymon server on port 25 from
another device, such as a Windows PC, with "telnet xymon.server.name25".  If you get a "connection refused" or similar message, than you need
to reconfigure Postfix to accept remote connections.

I followed the man page for the mailack and created everything as per
the instructions, but I am not even sure the mail is reaching the server at
this point.

Probably not.  Have a look at the "STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README" file
that came with Postfix for instructions on setting things up, particularly
the "Postfix on a local network" section.

J