I have never used the postfix, but per postfix authors words " It is .... mail server that started life.... as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program." So this should work.

Just try to test if You can send e-mail from OS with mail (or other) program then this should work. echo " test body" | mail -s " test subject " yourmail at yourdomain.com

I suppose XyMon Server just tries to send mail using OS tools (like mail) or using direct communication over local 25 port.

Just try and check XyMon logs for any problem.

Best regards,

Andrey Chervonets

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From: Milana Malkic <minaqva at hotmail.com> To: Andrey Chervonets <a.chervonets at cominder.eu>, "xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com>, "Martin.Ward at colt.net" <martin.ward at colt.net>, Date: 24.04.2013 17:37 Subject: RE: [Xymon] xymon mail service

I am using Centos 5.7, and I have postfix installed. So, I need to configure postfix and create a mail account via postfix. That mail account I have to put in alerts.cfg. I hope that I understood you well. If I am wrong please correct me.

To: xymon at xymon.com From: A.Chervonets at cominder.eu Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:46:36 +0300 Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon mail service

You need just regular sendmail working on the host. If You can send e-mail from OS with mail or mails - then it should work for XyMon too (sometimes You may also need to adjust sendmail configuration for masquarading, SMTP gateway etc). Contact Your system administrator or check web for "how to setup sendmail on linux or unix".

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Check if Postfix is running at all:

$ ps -ef|grep postfix

You will need to configure the main.cf file of Postfix to get it working but first, do you know what your smarthost is? If your Xymon server has full access to the Internet then there is no need but if not then you will need to route emails to a machine that knows how to deliver them. Your network admins should know this. This page give examples of Postfix configurations, I would recommend the "Postfix on a null client" and set the "relayhost" to whatever your smarthost server is.

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From: Milana Malkic [mailto:minaqva at hotmail.com] Sent: 24 April 2013 15:36 To: Andrey Chervonets; xymon at xymon.com; Ward, Martin Subject: RE: [Xymon] xymon mail service

I am using Centos 5.7, and I have postfix installed. So, I need to configure postfix and create a mail account via postfix. That mail account I have to put in alerts.cfg. I hope that I understood you well. If I am wrong please correct me.

To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> From: A.Chervonets at cominder.eu<mailto:A.Chervonets at cominder.eu> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:46:36 +0300 Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon mail service

You need just regular sendmail working on the host. If You can send e-mail from OS with mail or mails - then it should work for XyMon too (sometimes You may also need to adjust sendmail configuration for masquarading, SMTP gateway etc). Contact Your system administrator or check web for "how to setup sendmail on linux or unix".

Best regards,

Andrey Chervonets

SIA CoMinder http://www.cominder.eu/

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Hello,

this is what I have done about xymon mail service: I installed QMAIL, following the steps from http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html. Next, I installed mailx, and add my e-mail address in alerts.cfg in /home/xymon/server/etc folder. Now I get alerts when something happens to servers.

Thank you for your help

Regards

Milana

From: minaqva at hotmail.com To: martin.ward at colt.net; a.chervonets at cominder.eu; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] xymon mail service Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:26:46 +0200

Thank you very much. This was very helpful to me. I will try to make this work and I will post the results.

Regards

Milana From: Martin.Ward at colt.net To: minaqva at hotmail.com; a.chervonets at cominder.eu; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] xymon mail service Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:15:33 +0000

Check if Postfix is running at all:

$ ps –ef|grep postfix

You will need to configure the main.cf file of Postfix to get it working but first, do you know what your smarthost is? If your Xymon server has full access to the Internet then there is no need but if not then you will need to route emails to a machine that knows how to deliver them. Your network admins should know this. This page give examples of Postfix configurations, I would recommend the “Postfix on a null client” and set the “relayhost” to whatever your smarthost server is.

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From: Milana Malkic [mailto:minaqva at hotmail.com]

Sent: 24 April 2013 15:36

To: Andrey Chervonets; xymon at xymon.com; Ward, Martin

Subject: RE: [Xymon] xymon mail service

I am using Centos 5.7, and I have postfix installed.

So, I need to configure postfix and create a mail account via postfix. That mail account I have to put in alerts.cfg.

I hope that I understood you well. If I am wrong please correct me.

To: xymon at xymon.com

From: A.Chervonets at cominder.eu

Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:46:36 +0300

Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon mail service

You need just regular sendmail working on the host.

If You can send e-mail from OS with mail or mails - then it should work for XyMon too (sometimes You may also need to adjust sendmail configuration for masquarading, SMTP gateway etc).

Contact Your system administrator or check web for "how to setup sendmail on linux or unix".

Best regards,

Andrey Chervonets

SIA CoMinder

http://www.cominder.eu/

_______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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