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

[Ryan Novosielski]

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Are you looking for a procmailrc example? I imagine there's one in the
man page for hobbitd-mailack or whatever it was called (earlier in the
thread).

=R

Kevin Kelly wrote:
> Ok, I finally got my xymon server to accept outside mail. Since I am using sendmail and the man page has procmailrc, is there a standard configuration to use with sendmail?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Novosielski [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 10:54 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] SV: ack an alert with email or phone
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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.
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> =R
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> 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.
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>> /Johan
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>> *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
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>> Ok, now when I hit reply on an alert, I get the message back with 
>> couldnt find host. Is there additional steps with an exchange server maybe?
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>> *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
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>> You only need to configure procmail according to the man-page, and it 
>> works out of the box.
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>> http://xymon.org/hobbit/help/manpages/man8/hobbit-mailack.8.html
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>> /Johan
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>> *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
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>> Could someone point me some documentation about acknowledging an alert 
>> via email or phone.
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>> Thanks in advance!
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