Trying changing $HOME to the actual location of the xymon home.
Ralph Mitchell On Oct 2, 2012 7:25 PM, "Ray Reuter" <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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 <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>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 <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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 <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>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 <ray.reuter at gmail.com>wrote:
Thank you Ralph, where would the line below go?
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Ralph Mitchell < ralphmitchell at gmail.com> 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 <ray.reuter at gmail.com>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 < > jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote: > >> On 29 September 2012 02:51, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com>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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > >