[hobbit] SV: ack an alert with email or phone

[Ryan Novosielski]

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Barring that (in my case, changing MX records and mail routing was not
allowed), you can use fetchmail to pull mail from a valid account on
your e-mail server and acknowledge based on that. I have done that before.

=R

Johan Sjöberg wrote:
> You need to make sure that the reply e-mail is sent to the Xymon server.
> If you, for example, have xymon at yourdomain.com
> <mailto:xymon at yourdomain.com> as sender for alerts, you need to forward
> it to Xymon at xymonserver.yourdomain.com
> <mailto:Xymon at xymonserver.yourdomain.com> in exchange. You also need an
> MX record for xymonserver.yourdomain.com in DNS, and you need to
> configure the MTA on your Xymon server to accept mails for
> @xymonserver.yourdomain.com domain.
> 
>  
> 
> /Johan
> 
>  
> 
> *From:* Kevin Kelly [mailto:kkelly at lifetouch.com]
> *Sent:* den 23 september 2009 22:39
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] SV: ack an alert with email or phone
> 
>  
> 
> Ok, now when I hit reply on an alert, I get the message back with
> couldn’t find host. Is there additional steps with an exchange server maybe?
> 
>  
> 
> *From:* Johan Sjöberg [mailto:johan.sjoberg at deltamanagement.se]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 23, 2009 3:03 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* [hobbit] SV: ack an alert with email or phone
> 
>  
> 
> You only need to configure procmail according to the man-page, and it
> works out of the box.
> 
> http://xymon.org/hobbit/help/manpages/man8/hobbit-mailack.8.html
> 
>  
> 
> /Johan
> 
>  
> 
> *Från:* Kevin Kelly [mailto:kkelly at lifetouch.com]
> *Skickat:* den 23 september 2009 20:40
> *Till:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Ämne:* [hobbit] ack an alert with email or phone
> 
>  
> 
> Could someone point me some documentation about acknowledging an alert
> via email or phone.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
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