I have created the .procmailrc file it looks like this. The file is in /home/xymon 755 permissions and owned by xymon:xymon I tried the ownership as root as well.
DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log :0 | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
When I run it on the CLI using this command
./xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg --debug
I get nothing, it just returns an empty line, and sits there. I must be missing something. I had it working at a previous employer but the Linux guru there got it working for me. I do not have one of them here to lend a hand.
I do not see the procmail.log file nor the Mailbox directory the man pages refer to. I may be completely missing something simple here or better yet something like promail is not installed. I do get the alerts via email from the system so that is working.
Again thank you for all the help.
On 29 September 2012 02:51, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
I have created the .procmailrc file it looks like this. The file is in /home/xymon 755 permissions and owned by xymon:xymon I tried the ownership as root as well.
DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log :0 | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
When I run it on the CLI using this command
./xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg --debug
I get nothing, it just returns an empty line, and sits there. I must be missing something.
Yes you are. The xymon-mailack program expects an email message on standard input, and if run on the command-line your keyboard becomes standard input. You can do something like this:
xymon-mailack --env=... < sample-email
But first you need to put an email message into the file "sample-mail". You could create a file like this by temporarily removing the .procmailrc file (to let messages go into the xymon user's mailbox) and then sending the xymon user an email, and then copying a mail message from /var/mail/xymon. Note that the mailbox file can contain multiple messages each separated by blank line+"From " (from-space), and you only want one of them.
J
The messages are making it to var/mail/xymon without an issue now.
But the .procmailrc file and rocmail.log file do not seem to either get engaged in to the process or something else is missing.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>wrote:
On 29 September 2012 02:51, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
I have created the .procmailrc file it looks like this. The file is in /home/xymon 755 permissions and owned by xymon:xymon I tried the ownership as root as well.
DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log :0 | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
When I run it on the CLI using this command
./xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg --debug
I get nothing, it just returns an empty line, and sits there. I must be missing something.
Yes you are. The xymon-mailack program expects an email message on standard input, and if run on the command-line your keyboard becomes standard input. You can do something like this:
xymon-mailack --env=... < sample-email
But first you need to put an email message into the file "sample-mail". You could create a file like this by temporarily removing the .procmailrc file (to let messages go into the xymon user's mailbox) and then sending the xymon user an email, and then copying a mail message from /var/mail/xymon. Note that the mailbox file can contain multiple messages each separated by blank line+"From " (from-space), and you only want one of them.
J
I don't know about procmail as such, but I have had some success using email aliases. You can add a line like this:
xymon: "| /usr/local/bin/email_processor.sh"
then run "newaliases", then any email arriving for the xymon user gets piped through the script. Everything up to the first blank line is a header. Everything after that blank line is the body of the email.
I know procmail does something similar, I just don't know what, or how...
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
The messages are making it to var/mail/xymon without an issue now.
But the .procmailrc file and rocmail.log file do not seem to either get engaged in to the process or something else is missing.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>wrote:
On 29 September 2012 02:51, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
I have created the .procmailrc file it looks like this. The file is in /home/xymon 755 permissions and owned by xymon:xymon I tried the ownership as root as well.
DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log :0 | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
When I run it on the CLI using this command
./xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg --debug
I get nothing, it just returns an empty line, and sits there. I must be missing something.
Yes you are. The xymon-mailack program expects an email message on standard input, and if run on the command-line your keyboard becomes standard input. You can do something like this:
xymon-mailack --env=... < sample-email
But first you need to put an email message into the file "sample-mail". You could create a file like this by temporarily removing the .procmailrc file (to let messages go into the xymon user's mailbox) and then sending the xymon user an email, and then copying a mail message from /var/mail/xymon. Note that the mailbox file can contain multiple messages each separated by blank line+"From " (from-space), and you only want one of them.
J
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Thank you Ralph, where would the line below go?
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
I don't know about procmail as such, but I have had some success using email aliases. You can add a line like this:
xymon: "| /usr/local/bin/email_processor.sh"
then run "newaliases", then any email arriving for the xymon user gets piped through the script. Everything up to the first blank line is a header. Everything after that blank line is the body of the email.
I know procmail does something similar, I just don't know what, or how...
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
The messages are making it to var/mail/xymon without an issue now.
But the .procmailrc file and rocmail.log file do not seem to either get engaged in to the process or something else is missing.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au
wrote:
On 29 September 2012 02:51, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
I have created the .procmailrc file it looks like this. The file is in /home/xymon 755 permissions and owned by xymon:xymon I tried the ownership as root as well.
DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log :0 | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
When I run it on the CLI using this command
./xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg --debug
I get nothing, it just returns an empty line, and sits there. I must be missing something.
Yes you are. The xymon-mailack program expects an email message on standard input, and if run on the command-line your keyboard becomes standard input. You can do something like this:
xymon-mailack --env=... < sample-email
But first you need to put an email message into the file "sample-mail". You could create a file like this by temporarily removing the .procmailrc file (to let messages go into the xymon user's mailbox) and then sending the xymon user an email, and then copying a mail message from /var/mail/xymon. Note that the mailbox file can contain multiple messages each separated by blank line+"From " (from-space), and you only want one of them.
J
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Sorry, didn't type that bit... Anywhere in /etc/aliases will do, then run "newaliases" to recreate the db files that the mailer actually reads from.
Ralph
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Ralph, where would the line below go?
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
I don't know about procmail as such, but I have had some success using email aliases. You can add a line like this:
xymon: "| /usr/local/bin/email_processor.sh"
then run "newaliases", then any email arriving for the xymon user gets piped through the script. Everything up to the first blank line is a header. Everything after that blank line is the body of the email.
I know procmail does something similar, I just don't know what, or how...
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
The messages are making it to var/mail/xymon without an issue now.
But the .procmailrc file and rocmail.log file do not seem to either get engaged in to the process or something else is missing.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman < jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:
On 29 September 2012 02:51, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
I have created the .procmailrc file it looks like this. The file is in /home/xymon 755 permissions and owned by xymon:xymon I tried the ownership as root as well.
DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log :0 | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
When I run it on the CLI using this command
./xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg --debug
I get nothing, it just returns an empty line, and sits there. I must be missing something.
Yes you are. The xymon-mailack program expects an email message on standard input, and if run on the command-line your keyboard becomes standard input. You can do something like this:
xymon-mailack --env=... < sample-email
But first you need to put an email message into the file "sample-mail". You could create a file like this by temporarily removing the .procmailrc file (to let messages go into the xymon user's mailbox) and then sending the xymon user an email, and then copying a mail message from /var/mail/xymon. Note that the mailbox file can contain multiple messages each separated by blank line+"From " (from-space), and you only want one of them.
J
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
So is this how you made the mailack work for xymon?
I am not sure what my alias should be pointing to?Not sure what your script does.
Again thank you
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
Sorry, didn't type that bit... Anywhere in /etc/aliases will do, then run "newaliases" to recreate the db files that the mailer actually reads from.
Ralph
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Ralph, where would the line below go?
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
I don't know about procmail as such, but I have had some success using email aliases. You can add a line like this:
xymon: "| /usr/local/bin/email_processor.sh"
then run "newaliases", then any email arriving for the xymon user gets piped through the script. Everything up to the first blank line is a header. Everything after that blank line is the body of the email.
I know procmail does something similar, I just don't know what, or how...
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
The messages are making it to var/mail/xymon without an issue now.
But the .procmailrc file and rocmail.log file do not seem to either get engaged in to the process or something else is missing.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman < jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:
On 29 September 2012 02:51, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
I have created the .procmailrc file it looks like this. The file is in /home/xymon 755 permissions and owned by xymon:xymon I tried the ownership as root as well.
DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log :0 | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
When I run it on the CLI using this command
./xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg --debug
I get nothing, it just returns an empty line, and sits there. I must be missing something.
Yes you are. The xymon-mailack program expects an email message on standard input, and if run on the command-line your keyboard becomes standard input. You can do something like this:
xymon-mailack --env=... < sample-email
But first you need to put an email message into the file "sample-mail". You could create a file like this by temporarily removing the .procmailrc file (to let messages go into the xymon user's mailbox) and then sending the xymon user an email, and then copying a mail message from /var/mail/xymon. Note that the mailbox file can contain multiple messages each separated by blank line+"From " (from-space), and you only want one of them.
J
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
I've never used xymon-mailack, but I have used pipe-via-alias working for email delivery of status reports.
However, I just took a look at the man page for xymon-mailack, and it seems likely that that alias can use the exact same pipeline as given for both procmail and qmail:
| /home/xymon/server/bin/xymon-mailack .......
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
So is this how you made the mailack work for xymon?
I am not sure what my alias should be pointing to?Not sure what your script does.
Again thank you
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
Sorry, didn't type that bit... Anywhere in /etc/aliases will do, then run "newaliases" to recreate the db files that the mailer actually reads from.
Ralph
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Ralph, where would the line below go?
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
I don't know about procmail as such, but I have had some success using email aliases. You can add a line like this:
xymon: "| /usr/local/bin/email_processor.sh"
then run "newaliases", then any email arriving for the xymon user gets piped through the script. Everything up to the first blank line is a header. Everything after that blank line is the body of the email.
I know procmail does something similar, I just don't know what, or how...
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com>wrote:
The messages are making it to var/mail/xymon without an issue now.
But the .procmailrc file and rocmail.log file do not seem to either get engaged in to the process or something else is missing.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman < jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:
On 29 September 2012 02:51, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have created the .procmailrc file it looks like this. The file is > in /home/xymon 755 permissions and owned by xymon:xymon I tried the > ownership as root as well. > > DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox > LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log > :0 > | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg > > > When I run it on the CLI using this command > > ./xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg --debug > > I get nothing, it just returns an empty line, and sits there. I must > be missing something. >
Yes you are. The xymon-mailack program expects an email message on standard input, and if run on the command-line your keyboard becomes standard input. You can do something like this:
xymon-mailack --env=... < sample-email
But first you need to put an email message into the file "sample-mail". You could create a file like this by temporarily removing the .procmailrc file (to let messages go into the xymon user's mailbox) and then sending the xymon user an email, and then copying a mail message from /var/mail/xymon. Note that the mailbox file can contain multiple messages each separated by blank line+"From " (from-space), and you only want one of them.
J
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
I have the line now looking like this.
xymon: "| $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=$HOME/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg"
Mail does not seem to be processed by this either. The mail never makes it to the Mailbox/new directory though so now I am not sure where the email is going;
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
I've never used xymon-mailack, but I have used pipe-via-alias working for email delivery of status reports.
However, I just took a look at the man page for xymon-mailack, and it seems likely that that alias can use the exact same pipeline as given for both procmail and qmail:
| /home/xymon/server/bin/xymon-mailack .......
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
So is this how you made the mailack work for xymon?
I am not sure what my alias should be pointing to?Not sure what your script does.
Again thank you
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
Sorry, didn't type that bit... Anywhere in /etc/aliases will do, then run "newaliases" to recreate the db files that the mailer actually reads from.
Ralph
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Ralph, where would the line below go?
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com
wrote:
I don't know about procmail as such, but I have had some success using email aliases. You can add a line like this:
xymon: "| /usr/local/bin/email_processor.sh"
then run "newaliases", then any email arriving for the xymon user gets piped through the script. Everything up to the first blank line is a header. Everything after that blank line is the body of the email.
I know procmail does something similar, I just don't know what, or how...
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com>wrote:
The messages are making it to var/mail/xymon without an issue now.
But the .procmailrc file and rocmail.log file do not seem to either get engaged in to the process or something else is missing.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman < jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:
> On 29 September 2012 02:51, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have created the .procmailrc file it looks like this. The file is >> in /home/xymon 755 permissions and owned by xymon:xymon I tried the >> ownership as root as well. >> >> DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox >> LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log >> :0 >> | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg >> >> >> When I run it on the CLI using this command >> >> ./xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg --debug >> >> I get nothing, it just returns an empty line, and sits there. I >> must be missing something. >> > > Yes you are. The xymon-mailack program expects an email message on > standard input, and if run on the command-line your keyboard becomes > standard input. You can do something like this: > > xymon-mailack --env=... < sample-email > > But first you need to put an email message into the file > "sample-mail". You could create a file like this by temporarily removing > the .procmailrc file (to let messages go into the xymon user's mailbox) and > then sending the xymon user an email, and then copying a mail message from > /var/mail/xymon. Note that the mailbox file can contain multiple messages > each separated by blank line+"From " (from-space), and you only want one of > them. > > J > >
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Trying changing $HOME to the actual location of the xymon home.
Ralph Mitchell On Oct 2, 2012 7:25 PM, "Ray Reuter" <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
I have the line now looking like this.
xymon: "| $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=$HOME/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg"
Mail does not seem to be processed by this either. The mail never makes it to the Mailbox/new directory though so now I am not sure where the email is going;
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
I've never used xymon-mailack, but I have used pipe-via-alias working for email delivery of status reports.
However, I just took a look at the man page for xymon-mailack, and it seems likely that that alias can use the exact same pipeline as given for both procmail and qmail:
| /home/xymon/server/bin/xymon-mailack .......
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
So is this how you made the mailack work for xymon?
I am not sure what my alias should be pointing to?Not sure what your script does.
Again thank you
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
Sorry, didn't type that bit... Anywhere in /etc/aliases will do, then run "newaliases" to recreate the db files that the mailer actually reads from.
Ralph
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com>wrote:
Thank you Ralph, where would the line below go?
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Ralph Mitchell < ralphmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
I don't know about procmail as such, but I have had some success using email aliases. You can add a line like this:
xymon: "| /usr/local/bin/email_processor.sh"
then run "newaliases", then any email arriving for the xymon user gets piped through the script. Everything up to the first blank line is a header. Everything after that blank line is the body of the email.
I know procmail does something similar, I just don't know what, or how...
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com>wrote:
> The messages are making it to var/mail/xymon without an issue now. > > But the .procmailrc file and rocmail.log file do not seem to either > get engaged in to the process or something else is missing. > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman < > jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote: > >> On 29 September 2012 02:51, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> I have created the .procmailrc file it looks like this. The file >>> is in /home/xymon 755 permissions and owned by xymon:xymon I tried the >>> ownership as root as well. >>> >>> DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox >>> LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log >>> :0 >>> | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg >>> >>> >>> When I run it on the CLI using this command >>> >>> ./xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg >>> --debug >>> >>> I get nothing, it just returns an empty line, and sits there. I >>> must be missing something. >>> >> >> Yes you are. The xymon-mailack program expects an email message on >> standard input, and if run on the command-line your keyboard becomes >> standard input. You can do something like this: >> >> xymon-mailack --env=... < sample-email >> >> But first you need to put an email message into the file >> "sample-mail". You could create a file like this by temporarily removing >> the .procmailrc file (to let messages go into the xymon user's mailbox) and >> then sending the xymon user an email, and then copying a mail message from >> /var/mail/xymon. Note that the mailbox file can contain multiple messages >> each separated by blank line+"From " (from-space), and you only want one of >> them. >> >> J >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > >
Ralph, thank you so much. That worked and it actually parsed the incoming email to the script and it displayed the information to the system.
I want to thank everyone for being so patient with me and my limited skill set in the Linux world.
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
Trying changing $HOME to the actual location of the xymon home.
Ralph Mitchell On Oct 2, 2012 7:25 PM, "Ray Reuter" <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
I have the line now looking like this.
xymon: "| $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=$HOME/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg"
Mail does not seem to be processed by this either. The mail never makes it to the Mailbox/new directory though so now I am not sure where the email is going;
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
I've never used xymon-mailack, but I have used pipe-via-alias working for email delivery of status reports.
However, I just took a look at the man page for xymon-mailack, and it seems likely that that alias can use the exact same pipeline as given for both procmail and qmail:
| /home/xymon/server/bin/xymon-mailack .......
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
So is this how you made the mailack work for xymon?
I am not sure what my alias should be pointing to?Not sure what your script does.
Again thank you
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com
wrote:
Sorry, didn't type that bit... Anywhere in /etc/aliases will do, then run "newaliases" to recreate the db files that the mailer actually reads from.
Ralph
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com>wrote:
Thank you Ralph, where would the line below go?
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Ralph Mitchell < ralphmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know about procmail as such, but I have had some success > using email aliases. You can add a line like this: > > xymon: "| /usr/local/bin/email_processor.sh" > > then run "newaliases", then any email arriving for the xymon user > gets piped through the script. Everything up to the first blank line is a > header. Everything after that blank line is the body of the email. > > I know procmail does something similar, I just don't know what, or > how... > > Ralph Mitchell > > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com>wrote: > >> The messages are making it to var/mail/xymon without an issue now. >> >> But the .procmailrc file and rocmail.log file do not seem to either >> get engaged in to the process or something else is missing. >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman < >> jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote: >> >>> On 29 September 2012 02:51, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> I have created the .procmailrc file it looks like this. The file >>>> is in /home/xymon 755 permissions and owned by xymon:xymon I tried the >>>> ownership as root as well. >>>> >>>> DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox >>>> LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log >>>> :0 >>>> | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg >>>> >>>> >>>> When I run it on the CLI using this command >>>> >>>> ./xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg >>>> --debug >>>> >>>> I get nothing, it just returns an empty line, and sits there. I >>>> must be missing something. >>>> >>> >>> Yes you are. The xymon-mailack program expects an email message >>> on standard input, and if run on the command-line your keyboard becomes >>> standard input. You can do something like this: >>> >>> xymon-mailack --env=... < sample-email >>> >>> But first you need to put an email message into the file >>> "sample-mail". You could create a file like this by temporarily removing >>> the .procmailrc file (to let messages go into the xymon user's mailbox) and >>> then sending the xymon user an email, and then copying a mail message from >>> /var/mail/xymon. Note that the mailbox file can contain multiple messages >>> each separated by blank line+"From " (from-space), and you only want one of >>> them. >>> >>> J >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xymon mailing list >> Xymon at xymon.com >> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >> >> >
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