[Xymon] TS - sendmail HOWTO?

[Phil Crooker]

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


>>> 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
> 
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