[Xymon] xymon-mailack

[Ray Reuter]

Well we are getting closer. I am now able to telnet to the server. I tried
to send mail to the server but kicked off every time i try to do the
subject line.

[root at xxxcacti2 ~]# telnet XXXXXXXX.xxx.com 25
Trying 10.1.72.168...
Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com (xx.xx.x.x).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com ESMTP Postfix
helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com
250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com
MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com
250 2.1.0 Ok
RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com
250 2.1.5 Ok
"SUBJECT: Xymon"
221 2.7.0 Error: I can break rules, too. Goodbye.
Connection closed by foreign host.

I have the .procmailrc file set up as per the xymon man page, still not
sure if the "Mailbox" is a directory or file. and the directory structure
of the xymon home directory looks like this.

drwxr-xr-x.  2 xymon xymon  4096 Oct  2 11:02 Mailbox
-rw-r--r--.  1 xymon xymon     0 Oct  1 12:15 procmail.log
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 xymon xymon   124 Oct  2 11:04 .procmailrc

This feature is one of the most important to the company I work for and
have been trying to get it to work for a couple of days now. We even added
an MX record for the server so mail can be delivered to it directly. Telnet
works locally and remote.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated, you have all been a huge
help so far and this monitoring tool has done wonders for this company.






On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>wrote:

> On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am using Centos 6.2
>
>
> By default Centos (aka Red Hat) v6 boxes run postfix (rather than
> Sendmail).
>
> During my install I do not remember installing anything as the mail
>> transport, but the alerting was working right out of the box from day one.
>>
>
> Initially, postfix is configured so it won't accept SMTP connections from
> off the box.  So outbound emails will get sent OK, but incoming emails will
> not get delivered to the Xymon server.
>
> Test this by attempting to telnet to the Xymon server on port 25 from
> another device, such as a Windows PC, with "telnet xymon.server.name 25".
>  If you get a "connection refused" or similar message, than you need to
> reconfigure Postfix to accept remote connections.
>
>
>> I followed the man page for the mailack and created everything as per the
>> instructions, but I am not even sure the mail is reaching the server at
>> this point.
>>
>
> Probably not.  Have a look at the "STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README" file
> that came with Postfix for instructions on setting things up, particularly
> the "Postfix on a local network" section.
>
> J
>
>
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