I created the .procmail file as per the man pages, installed procmail but nothing seems to work when replying to the alerts sent by my xymon server.
The "Mailbox" in the .procmail file is it a file or a directory? Does anyone who has this working know what the permissions and owner ship of the .procmail file should be?
Everyone on this mailing list has been instrumental with helping me through some of the issue I have had. I wish I were more of a Linux guru but I am not and the company I work for does not have a true Linux engineer, he has less experience then I do.
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On 10/01/2012 11:48 AM, Ray Reuter wrote:
I created the .procmail file as per the man pages, installed procmail but nothing seems to work when replying to the alerts sent by my xymon server.
The "Mailbox" in the .procmail file is it a file or a directory? Does anyone who has this working know what the permissions and owner ship of the .procmail file should be?
Everyone on this mailing list has been instrumental with helping me through some of the issue I have had. I wish I were more of a Linux guru but I am not and the company I work for does not have a true Linux engineer, he has less experience then I do.
There will probably be a log for this somewhere of what is going on. I don't think you said what OS or any of that. Regardless, you will probably do better Googling for information about the use of the Procmail RC file (nothing much to do with Xymon). I don't remember having any particular trouble with this. You'd need to know whether your MTA even uses procmail though, I think. I personally used a .forward file that is at least used by Sendmail (which is what I'm using -- don't recall whether it supports procmail which is for mail filtering).
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I am using Centos 6.2 Kernel Linux 2.6.32-200.231.el6.i686
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.
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.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu>wrote:
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On 10/01/2012 11:48 AM, Ray Reuter wrote:
I created the .procmail file as per the man pages, installed procmail but nothing seems to work when replying to the alerts sent by my xymon server.
The "Mailbox" in the .procmail file is it a file or a directory? Does anyone who has this working know what the permissions and owner ship of the .procmail file should be?
Everyone on this mailing list has been instrumental with helping me through some of the issue I have had. I wish I were more of a Linux guru but I am not and the company I work for does not have a true Linux engineer, he has less experience then I do.
There will probably be a log for this somewhere of what is going on. I don't think you said what OS or any of that. Regardless, you will probably do better Googling for information about the use of the Procmail RC file (nothing much to do with Xymon). I don't remember having any particular trouble with this. You'd need to know whether your MTA even uses procmail though, I think. I personally used a .forward file that is at least used by Sendmail (which is what I'm using -- don't recall whether it supports procmail which is for mail filtering).
- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novosirj at umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/EI-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/
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Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Do you even have an email receiver running on your xymon server? Try to telnet to port 25 on the server:
telnet server.domain.com 25If that fails to connect, you won't be able to receive email either.
Ralph Mitchell
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
I am using Centos 6.2 Kernel Linux 2.6.32-200.231.el6.i686
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.
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.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu>wrote:
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On 10/01/2012 11:48 AM, Ray Reuter wrote:
I created the .procmail file as per the man pages, installed procmail but nothing seems to work when replying to the alerts sent by my xymon server.
The "Mailbox" in the .procmail file is it a file or a directory? Does anyone who has this working know what the permissions and owner ship of the .procmail file should be?
Everyone on this mailing list has been instrumental with helping me through some of the issue I have had. I wish I were more of a Linux guru but I am not and the company I work for does not have a true Linux engineer, he has less experience then I do.
There will probably be a log for this somewhere of what is going on. I don't think you said what OS or any of that. Regardless, you will probably do better Googling for information about the use of the Procmail RC file (nothing much to do with Xymon). I don't remember having any particular trouble with this. You'd need to know whether your MTA even uses procmail though, I think. I personally used a .forward file that is at least used by Sendmail (which is what I'm using -- don't recall whether it supports procmail which is for mail filtering).
- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novosirj at umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/EI-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/
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Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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.name 25". 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
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: raymond.reuter at xxx.com 250 2.1.0 Ok RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com 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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>wrote:
On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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.name 25". 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
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 <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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: raymond.reuter at xxx.com 250 2.1.0 Ok RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com 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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>wrote:
On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
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 <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>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 <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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: raymond.reuter at xxx.com 250 2.1.0 Ok RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com 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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>wrote:
On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
The sequence appears to be
HELO server.domain.com MAIL FROM: me at here.com RCPT TO: you at there.com 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 <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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 <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>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 <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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: raymond.reuter at xxx.com 250 2.1.0 Ok RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com 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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au
wrote:
On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
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 <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
The sequence appears to be
HELO server.domain.com MAIL FROM: me at here.com RCPT TO: you at there.com 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 <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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 <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>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 <ray.reuter at gmail.com>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: raymond.reuter at xxx.com 250 2.1.0 Ok RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com 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 < jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:
On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
} On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com> wrote: } The sequence appears to be } HELO server.domain.com } MAIL FROM: me at here.com } RCPT TO: you at there.com } 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 [...snip...]
You also need a blank (empty) line after the header lines (in your case, the Subject: line), the remainder of the input then becomes the body of the mail message.
-Andrew
On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Ray Reuter wrote:
} 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. } }
I've tried it going to Postfix and Lotus Notes, and both seem to be OK with not putting in a blank line. Looking at the raw email, it puts the Subject line among the other headers and separates the body from the headers with a blank line. It looks like maybe mailers are smart enough to interpret the first non-header as the start of the body?
A blank line wouldn't hurt, though, and may be necessary for some mailers.
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Andrew Rakowski <landrew at pnnl.gov> wrote:
} On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com> wrote: } The sequence appears to be } HELO server.domain.com } MAIL FROM: me at here.com } RCPT TO: you at there.com } 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 [...snip...]
You also need a blank (empty) line after the header lines (in your case, the Subject: line), the remainder of the input then becomes the body of the mail message.
-Andrew
On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Ray Reuter wrote:
} 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. } }
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
That error is postfix tell you it can't deliver. Did you edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and at least set the 'myhostname' variable to the fqdn for your host?
Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
From: Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:30 AM To: Jeremy Laidman Cc: Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com; Root, Paul Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
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<http://XXXXXXXX.xxx.com> 25 Trying 10.1.72.168... Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com<http://XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com> (xx.xx.x.x). Escape character is '^]'. 220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> ESMTP Postfix helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> 250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXX.lvh.com> MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com<mailto:raymond.reuter at xxx.com> 250 2.1.0 Ok RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com<mailto:xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com> 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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au<mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>> wrote: On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com<mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>> 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.name<http://xymon.server.name> 25". 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
okay made a lot of progress now. It arrived at the server but never seems to either get parsed by the .procmail in the xymon home directory or not being processed correctly. Any ideas?
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from domain.domain.com[10.1.5.176] Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9: client= domain.domin.com[10.1.5.176] Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9: message-id=< DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com> Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: from=< Raymond.Reuter at domain.org>, size=1859, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from domain.domain.com[10.1.5.176] Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/local[31089]: 4F53752F9: to=< xymon at domain.domain.com>, relay=local, delay=0.02, delays=0/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox) Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com>wrote:
That error is postfix tell you it can’t deliver. Did you edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and at least set the ‘myhostname’ variable to the fqdn for your host?****
Paul Root - Senior Engineer****
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink****
*From:* Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:30 AM *To:* Jeremy Laidman *Cc:* Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com; Root, Paul *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack****
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: raymond.reuter at xxx.com****
250 2.1.0 Ok****
RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com****
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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:****
On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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.name 25". 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****
What's your procmail log file say.
Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
From: Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:47 AM To: Root, Paul Cc: Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
okay made a lot of progress now. It arrived at the server but never seems to either get parsed by the .procmail in the xymon home directory or not being processed correctly. Any ideas?
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from domain.domain.com<http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176] Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9: client=domain.domin.com<http://domain.domin.com>[10.1.5.176] Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9: message-id=<DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com<mailto:DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com>> Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: from=<Raymond.Reuter at domain.org<mailto:Raymond.Reuter at domain.org>>, size=1859, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from domain.domain.com<http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176] Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/local[31089]: 4F53752F9: to=<xymon at domain.domain.com<mailto:xymon at domain.domain.com>>, relay=local, delay=0.02, delays=0/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox) Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com<mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote: That error is postfix tell you it can't deliver. Did you edit /etc/postfix/main.cf<http://main.cf> and at least set the 'myhostname' variable to the fqdn for your host?
Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
From: Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com<mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:30 AM To: Jeremy Laidman Cc: Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>; Root, Paul Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
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<http://XXXXXXXX.xxx.com> 25 Trying 10.1.72.168... Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com<http://XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com> (xx.xx.x.x). Escape character is '^]'. 220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> ESMTP Postfix helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> 250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXX.lvh.com> MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com<mailto:raymond.reuter at xxx.com> 250 2.1.0 Ok RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com<mailto:xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com> 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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au<mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>> wrote: On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com<mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>> 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.name<http://xymon.server.name> 25". 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
The procmail.log file is still empty.
Should they (.procmairc procmail.log Mailbox "still not sure if this is a directory or file ) be owned by xymon or root and what the permissions should be.
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com>wrote:
What’s your procmail log file say.****
Paul Root - Senior Engineer****
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink****
*From:* Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:47 AM *To:* Root, Paul *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack****
okay made a lot of progress now. It arrived at the server but never seems to either get parsed by the .procmail in the xymon home directory or not being processed correctly. Any ideas?****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from domain.domain.com[10.1.5.176]****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9: client= domain.domin.com[10.1.5.176]****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9: message-id=< DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com>****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: from=< Raymond.Reuter at domain.org>, size=1859, nrcpt=1 (queue active)****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from domain.domain.com[10.1.5.176]****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/local[31089]: 4F53752F9: to=< xymon at domain.domain.com>, relay=local, delay=0.02, delays=0/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed****
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com> wrote:****
That error is postfix tell you it can’t deliver. Did you edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and at least set the ‘myhostname’ variable to the fqdn for your host?****
Paul Root - Senior Engineer****
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink****
*From:* Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:30 AM *To:* Jeremy Laidman *Cc:* Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com; Root, Paul *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack****
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: raymond.reuter at xxx.com****
250 2.1.0 Ok****
RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com****
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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:****
On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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.name 25". 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****
yes
Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
From: Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 12:27 PM To: Root, Paul Cc: Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
The procmail.log file is still empty.
Should they (.procmairc procmail.log Mailbox "still not sure if this is a directory or file ) be owned by xymon or root and what the permissions should be.
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com<mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote: What's your procmail log file say.
Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
From: Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com<mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:47 AM To: Root, Paul Cc: Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
okay made a lot of progress now. It arrived at the server but never seems to either get parsed by the .procmail in the xymon home directory or not being processed correctly. Any ideas?
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from domain.domain.com<http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176] Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9: client=domain.domin.com<http://domain.domin.com>[10.1.5.176] Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9: message-id=<DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com<mailto:DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com>> Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: from=<Raymond.Reuter at domain.org<mailto:Raymond.Reuter at domain.org>>, size=1859, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from domain.domain.com<http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176] Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/local[31089]: 4F53752F9: to=<xymon at domain.domain.com<mailto:xymon at domain.domain.com>>, relay=local, delay=0.02, delays=0/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox) Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com<mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote: That error is postfix tell you it can't deliver. Did you edit /etc/postfix/main.cf<http://main.cf> and at least set the 'myhostname' variable to the fqdn for your host?
Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
From: Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com<mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:30 AM To: Jeremy Laidman Cc: Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>; Root, Paul Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
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<http://XXXXXXXX.xxx.com> 25 Trying 10.1.72.168... Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com<http://XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com> (xx.xx.x.x). Escape character is '^]'. 220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> ESMTP Postfix helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> 250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXX.lvh.com> MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com<mailto:raymond.reuter at xxx.com> 250 2.1.0 Ok RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com<mailto:xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com> 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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au<mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>> wrote: On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com<mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>> 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.name<http://xymon.server.name> 25". 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
yes they should be owned by xymon with 755 as the permissions? And if they are correct where should I be looking as to why the emails are not getting parsed or even showing up in the procmail.log file
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com>wrote:
yes****
Paul Root - Senior Engineer****
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink****
*From:* Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 12:27 PM
*To:* Root, Paul *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack****
The procmail.log file is still empty. ****
Should they (.procmairc procmail.log Mailbox "still not sure if this is a directory or file ) be owned by xymon or root and what the permissions should be.****
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com> wrote:****
What’s your procmail log file say.****
Paul Root - Senior Engineer****
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink****
*From:* Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:47 AM *To:* Root, Paul *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack****
okay made a lot of progress now. It arrived at the server but never seems to either get parsed by the .procmail in the xymon home directory or not being processed correctly. Any ideas?****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from domain.domain.com[10.1.5.176]****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9: client= domain.domin.com[10.1.5.176]****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9: message-id=< DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com>****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: from=< Raymond.Reuter at domain.org>, size=1859, nrcpt=1 (queue active)****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from domain.domain.com[10.1.5.176]****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/local[31089]: 4F53752F9: to=< xymon at domain.domain.com>, relay=local, delay=0.02, delays=0/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed****
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com> wrote:****
That error is postfix tell you it can’t deliver. Did you edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and at least set the ‘myhostname’ variable to the fqdn for your host?****
Paul Root - Senior Engineer****
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink****
*From:* Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:30 AM *To:* Jeremy Laidman *Cc:* Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com; Root, Paul *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack****
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: raymond.reuter at xxx.com****
250 2.1.0 Ok****
RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com****
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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:****
On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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.name 25". 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****
The server is accepting emails, the /var/mail/xymon has all of the responses I have sent back via the alerts, but they never seem to make it to the.procmailrc script or the Mailbox and nothing is logging in the procmail.log.
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com>wrote:
What’s your procmail log file say.****
Paul Root - Senior Engineer****
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink****
*From:* Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:47 AM *To:* Root, Paul *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack****
okay made a lot of progress now. It arrived at the server but never seems to either get parsed by the .procmail in the xymon home directory or not being processed correctly. Any ideas?****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from domain.domain.com[10.1.5.176]****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9: client= domain.domin.com[10.1.5.176]****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9: message-id=< DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com>****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: from=< Raymond.Reuter at domain.org>, size=1859, nrcpt=1 (queue active)****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from domain.domain.com[10.1.5.176]****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/local[31089]: 4F53752F9: to=< xymon at domain.domain.com>, relay=local, delay=0.02, delays=0/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)****
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed****
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com> wrote:****
That error is postfix tell you it can’t deliver. Did you edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and at least set the ‘myhostname’ variable to the fqdn for your host?****
Paul Root - Senior Engineer****
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink****
*From:* Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:30 AM *To:* Jeremy Laidman *Cc:* Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com; Root, Paul *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack****
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: raymond.reuter at xxx.com****
250 2.1.0 Ok****
RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com****
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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:****
On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> 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.name 25". 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****
Do you have the procmail hooks in the postfix config files?
If not, do you have your .forward setup to send stuff to procmail?
Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
From: Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 1:57 PM To: Root, Paul Cc: Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
The server is accepting emails, the /var/mail/xymon has all of the responses I have sent back via the alerts, but they never seem to make it to the.procmailrc script or the Mailbox and nothing is logging in the procmail.log.
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com<mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote: What's your procmail log file say.
Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
From: Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com<mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:47 AM To: Root, Paul Cc: Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
okay made a lot of progress now. It arrived at the server but never seems to either get parsed by the .procmail in the xymon home directory or not being processed correctly. Any ideas?
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from domain.domain.com<http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176] Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9: client=domain.domin.com<http://domain.domin.com>[10.1.5.176] Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9: message-id=<DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com<mailto:DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com>> Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: from=<Raymond.Reuter at domain.org<mailto:Raymond.Reuter at domain.org>>, size=1859, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from domain.domain.com<http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176] Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/local[31089]: 4F53752F9: to=<xymon at domain.domain.com<mailto:xymon at domain.domain.com>>, relay=local, delay=0.02, delays=0/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox) Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com<mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote: That error is postfix tell you it can't deliver. Did you edit /etc/postfix/main.cf<http://main.cf> and at least set the 'myhostname' variable to the fqdn for your host?
Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
From: Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com<mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:30 AM To: Jeremy Laidman Cc: Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>; Root, Paul Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
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<http://XXXXXXXX.xxx.com> 25 Trying 10.1.72.168... Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com<http://XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com> (xx.xx.x.x). Escape character is '^]'. 220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> ESMTP Postfix helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> 250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXX.lvh.com> MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com<mailto:raymond.reuter at xxx.com> 250 2.1.0 Ok RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com<mailto:xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com> 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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au<mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>> wrote: On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com<mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>> 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.name<http://xymon.server.name> 25". 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
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Is there any particular reason to use procmail at all, especially if you don't use this e-mail address to receive any other type of mail? I just use .forward.
On 10/02/2012 03:02 PM, Root, Paul wrote:
Do you have the procmail hooks in the postfix config files?
If not, do you have your .forward setup to send stuff to procmail?
Paul Root - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
*From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 1:57 PM *To:* Root, Paul *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
The server is accepting emails, the /var/mail/xymon has all of the responses I have sent back via the alerts, but they never seem to make it to the.procmailrc script or the Mailbox and nothing is logging in the procmail.log.
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote:
What’s your procmail log file say.
Paul Root - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
*From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:47 AM *To:* Root, Paul *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
okay made a lot of progress now. It arrived at the server but never seems to either get parsed by the .procmail in the xymon home directory or not being processed correctly. Any ideas?
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from domain.domain.com <http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176]
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9: client=domain.domin.com <http://domain.domin.com>[10.1.5.176]
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9: message-id=<DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com
<mailto:DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com>>
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: from=<Raymond.Reuter at domain.org <mailto:Raymond.Reuter at domain.org>>, size=1859, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from domain.domain.com <http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176]
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/local[31089]: 4F53752F9: to=<xymon at domain.domain.com <mailto:xymon at domain.domain.com>>, relay=local, delay=0.02, delays=0/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote:
That error is postfix tell you it can’t deliver. Did you edit /etc/postfix/main.cf <http://main.cf> and at least set the ‘myhostname’ variable to the fqdn for your host?
Paul Root - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
*From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:30 AM *To:* Jeremy Laidman *Cc:* Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>; Root, Paul *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
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 <http://XXXXXXXX.xxx.com> 25
Trying 10.1.72.168...
Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com <http://XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com> (xx.xx.x.x).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> ESMTP Postfix
helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com>
250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXX.lvh.com>
MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com <mailto:raymond.reuter at xxx.com>
250 2.1.0 Ok
RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com <mailto:xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com>
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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au <mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>> wrote:
On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>> 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.name <http://xymon.server.name> 25". 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
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Well, the procmail setup can filter out mail bounces and such, and also parse to only accept mail from people in a given list.
You could do that in your own script as well I suppose, but why reinvent the wheel.
Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
-----Original Message----- From: Novosielski, Ryan [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 2:04 PM To: Root, Paul Cc: 'Ray Reuter'; Jeremy Laidman; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
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Is there any particular reason to use procmail at all, especially if you don't use this e-mail address to receive any other type of mail? I just use .forward.
On 10/02/2012 03:02 PM, Root, Paul wrote:
Do you have the procmail hooks in the postfix config files?
If not, do you have your .forward setup to send stuff to procmail?
Paul Root - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
*From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 1:57 PM *To:* Root, Paul *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
The server is accepting emails, the /var/mail/xymon has all of the responses I have sent back via the alerts, but they never seem to make it to the.procmailrc script or the Mailbox and nothing is logging in the procmail.log.
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote:
What's your procmail log file say.
Paul Root - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
*From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:47 AM *To:* Root, Paul *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
okay made a lot of progress now. It arrived at the server but never seems to either get parsed by the .procmail in the xymon home directory or not being processed correctly. Any ideas?
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from domain.domain.com <http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176]
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9: client=domain.domin.com <http://domain.domin.com>[10.1.5.176]
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9: message- id=<DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com
<mailto:DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com>>
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: from=<Raymond.Reuter at domain.org <mailto:Raymond.Reuter at domain.org>>, size=1859, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from domain.domain.com <http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176]
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/local[31089]: 4F53752F9: to=<xymon at domain.domain.com <mailto:xymon at domain.domain.com>>, relay=local, delay=0.02, delays=0/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote:
That error is postfix tell you it can't deliver. Did you edit /etc/postfix/main.cf <http://main.cf> and at least set the 'myhostname' variable to the fqdn for your host?
Paul Root - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
*From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:30 AM *To:* Jeremy Laidman *Cc:* Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>; Root, Paul *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
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 <http://XXXXXXXX.xxx.com> 25
Trying 10.1.72.168...
Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com <http://XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com> (xx.xx.x.x).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> ESMTP Postfix
helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com>
250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXX.lvh.com>
MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com <mailto:raymond.reuter at xxx.com>
250 2.1.0 Ok
RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com <mailto:xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com>
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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au <mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>> wrote:
On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>> 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.name <http://xymon.server.name> 25". 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
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Does anything need restarting for procmail changes to take effect?
Ralph
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com>wrote:
Well, the procmail setup can filter out mail bounces and such, and also parse to only accept mail from people in a given list.
You could do that in your own script as well I suppose, but why reinvent the wheel.
Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
-----Original Message----- From: Novosielski, Ryan [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 2:04 PM To: Root, Paul Cc: 'Ray Reuter'; Jeremy Laidman; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
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Is there any particular reason to use procmail at all, especially if you don't use this e-mail address to receive any other type of mail? I just use .forward.
On 10/02/2012 03:02 PM, Root, Paul wrote:
Do you have the procmail hooks in the postfix config files?
If not, do you have your .forward setup to send stuff to procmail?
Paul Root - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
*From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 1:57 PM *To:* Root, Paul *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
The server is accepting emails, the /var/mail/xymon has all of the responses I have sent back via the alerts, but they never seem to make it to the.procmailrc script or the Mailbox and nothing is logging in the procmail.log.
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote:
What's your procmail log file say.
Paul Root - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
*From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:47 AM *To:* Root, Paul *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
okay made a lot of progress now. It arrived at the server but never seems to either get parsed by the .procmail in the xymon home directory or not being processed correctly. Any ideas?
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from domain.domain.com <http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176]
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9: client=domain.domin.com <http://domain.domin.com>[10.1.5.176]
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9: message- id=<DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com
<mailto:DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com>>
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: from=<Raymond.Reuter at domain.org <mailto:Raymond.Reuter at domain.org>>, size=1859, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from domain.domain.com <http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176]
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/local[31089]: 4F53752F9: to=<xymon at domain.domain.com <mailto:xymon at domain.domain.com>>, relay=local, delay=0.02, delays=0/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote:
That error is postfix tell you it can't deliver. Did you edit /etc/postfix/main.cf <http://main.cf> and at least set the 'myhostname' variable to the fqdn for your host?
Paul Root - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
*From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:30 AM *To:* Jeremy Laidman *Cc:* Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>; Root, Paul *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
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 <http://XXXXXXXX.xxx.com> 25
Trying 10.1.72.168...
Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com <http://XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com> (xx.xx.x.x).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> ESMTP Postfix
helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com>
250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXX.lvh.com>
MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com <mailto:raymond.reuter at xxx.com>
250 2.1.0 Ok
RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com <mailto:xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com>
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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au <mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>> wrote:
On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>> 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.name <http://xymon.server.name> 25". 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
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Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Here is an update, with everyone's help I was able to receive mail, then I was able to put the hooks in to main.cf for postfix to have it create the Mailbox directory with the /new /cur and /tmp directories. New mail is delivered to the new directory. But still bypasses the .prcmailrc file.
So I can respond to the alerts but still not being parsed and acknowledged.
I am feeling confident it is a something simple but I am just missing it. You have all been great and hopefully someone may realize what I am missing.
I can send along whatever is needed to help find my missing piece.
Thanks again
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com>wrote:
Well, the procmail setup can filter out mail bounces and such, and also parse to only accept mail from people in a given list.
You could do that in your own script as well I suppose, but why reinvent the wheel.
Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
-----Original Message----- From: Novosielski, Ryan [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 2:04 PM To: Root, Paul Cc: 'Ray Reuter'; Jeremy Laidman; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
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Is there any particular reason to use procmail at all, especially if you don't use this e-mail address to receive any other type of mail? I just use .forward.
On 10/02/2012 03:02 PM, Root, Paul wrote:
Do you have the procmail hooks in the postfix config files?
If not, do you have your .forward setup to send stuff to procmail?
Paul Root - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
*From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 1:57 PM *To:* Root, Paul *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
The server is accepting emails, the /var/mail/xymon has all of the responses I have sent back via the alerts, but they never seem to make it to the.procmailrc script or the Mailbox and nothing is logging in the procmail.log.
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote:
What's your procmail log file say.
Paul Root - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
*From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:47 AM *To:* Root, Paul *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
okay made a lot of progress now. It arrived at the server but never seems to either get parsed by the .procmail in the xymon home directory or not being processed correctly. Any ideas?
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from domain.domain.com <http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176]
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9: client=domain.domin.com <http://domain.domin.com>[10.1.5.176]
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9: message- id=<DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com
<mailto:DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com>>
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: from=<Raymond.Reuter at domain.org <mailto:Raymond.Reuter at domain.org>>, size=1859, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from domain.domain.com <http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176]
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/local[31089]: 4F53752F9: to=<xymon at domain.domain.com <mailto:xymon at domain.domain.com>>, relay=local, delay=0.02, delays=0/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote:
That error is postfix tell you it can't deliver. Did you edit /etc/postfix/main.cf <http://main.cf> and at least set the 'myhostname' variable to the fqdn for your host?
Paul Root - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
*From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:30 AM *To:* Jeremy Laidman *Cc:* Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>; Root, Paul *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
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 <http://XXXXXXXX.xxx.com> 25
Trying 10.1.72.168...
Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com <http://XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com> (xx.xx.x.x).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> ESMTP Postfix
helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com>
250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXX.lvh.com>
MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com <mailto:raymond.reuter at xxx.com>
250 2.1.0 Ok
RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com <mailto:xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com>
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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au <mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>> wrote:
On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>> 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.name <http://xymon.server.name> 25". 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
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On 3 October 2012 09:30, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
I am feeling confident it is a something simple but I am just missing it. You have all been great and hopefully someone may realize what I am missing.
Postfix doesn't run procmail by default, and instead delivers directly to a mailbox. So procmail needs to be enabled for .procmailrc to be used. Do this by setting mailbox_command to /usr/bin/procmail (in main.cf) and reloading postfix.
You might be able to get this to work per-user (and without changing postfix) by creating a .forward file containing a suitable pipe command, as shown in the procmail man page:
"|IFS=' '&&p=/usr/bin/procmail&&test -f $p&&exec $p -Yf-||exit 75#YOUR_USERNAME"
J
After MAIL FROM & RCPT TO - you need a DATA command...
Regards,
Carl
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Please be aware that Rakon UK Limited may monitor email traffic data including the date, time, subject line, sender and recipients for the purposes of security and usage monitoring. Automated monitoring systems may also be applied to ascertain whether incoming/outgoing emails are likely to contain viruses, other destructive devices or inappropriate content. From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ray Reuter Sent: 02 October 2012 16:30 To: Jeremy Laidman Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
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<http://XXXXXXXX.xxx.com> 25 Trying 10.1.72.168... Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com<http://XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com> (xx.xx.x.x). Escape character is '^]'. 220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> ESMTP Postfix helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> 250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXX.lvh.com> MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com<mailto:raymond.reuter at xxx.com> 250 2.1.0 Ok RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com<mailto:xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com> 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 <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au<mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>> wrote: On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com<mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>> 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.name<http://xymon.server.name> 25". 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
This works:
DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox
LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log
FROM=/usr/bin/formail -x From:
FGREP=/bin/fgrep
XYMON_ACKERS=$HOME/.xymon_ackers
:0 w
- ^Subject:.*Out of Office /dev/null
:0 w
- ^Subject:.*Undeliverable /dev/null
:0:emailack
- ? (echo "$FROM" | $FGREP -i -f $XYMON_ACKERS) | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=$HOME/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
:0 /dev/null
Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ray Reuter Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 10:49 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
I created the .procmail file as per the man pages, installed procmail but nothing seems to work when replying to the alerts sent by my xymon server.
The "Mailbox" in the .procmail file is it a file or a directory? Does anyone who has this working know what the permissions and owner ship of the .procmail file should be?
Everyone on this mailing list has been instrumental with helping me through some of the issue I have had. I wish I were more of a Linux guru but I am not and the company I work for does not have a true Linux engineer, he has less experience then I do.
participants (7)
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Carl.Inglis＠rakon.com
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jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au
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landrew＠pnnl.gov
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novosirj＠umdnj.edu
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Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com
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ralphmitchell＠gmail.com
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ray.reuter＠gmail.com