You probably want to use procmail. Have the incoming emails be addressed to the xymon user, then setup a .procmailrc file in that user's home directory to filter out the messages of interest, then it can pass them to a shell script for parsing. Procmail will pipe the email to your script on delivery of the email, your script can then feed stuff into xymon.

Here is a nice procmail tutorial: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~ian/procmail.html

You'll need to setup sendmail to use procmail as the local processor (if it isn't already) - it has been too long for me regarding sendmail, I've been using postfix for years..

This works quite well, I used to have this running for email feeds from one of our former ISPs.

cheers, Phil

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On 18/04/2012 at 5:04 AM, in message <56D73117EB0D8C4B96175223CB27D29A5BB8D8 at SLXCG02.csw.l-3com.com>, <d.tom.schmitt at L-3com.com> wrote: Does anyone have the setup for my Xymon server 4.3.0-0.beta2

Running on a Dell R-610 on CentOS with Sendmail.

My Exchange guys say that they are not stopping delivery of Emails to my server.

I need to know what options need to be set in the Sendmail system to receive Emails.

Is there a HOWTO setup the Xymon login to receive and parse the returned Emails?

I want to allow my users to reply with an 'a' = ACKnowledge or a 'd'

DISable of the device.

I have not done something like this for 5 years and now I need it again.

I need to understand in SENDMAIL where the script goes for the Xymon login to parse the Email apart

And process the request and return an Email.

I found something on ACK but it was not for Sendmail.

Thanks,

Tom Schmitt

Senior IT Staff - R&D

L-3 Communication Systems West

640 North 2200 West P.O. Box 16850

Salt Lake City, UT 84116

Phone (801) 594-3030

Cell (801) 231-7230

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