[Xymon] xymon-mailack

[Ray Reuter]

I have a feeling the machine I ran the telnet from can not deliver the
email but as in the message below it did accept everything i put in the
command.



On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:

> The sequence appears to be
>
> HELO server.domain.com
> MAIL FROM: me at here.com
> RCPT TO: you at there.com
> DATA
> Subject: this is the subject line
> first line of message
> second line of message
> .
> QUIT
>
>
> I just tried that, and it delivered. with the Subject line among the
> headers.  Odd, but it worked...
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Tried it without the quotes a second ago as well.
>>
>> 250 2.1.5 Ok
>> SUBJECT: xymon
>> 221 2.7.0 Error: I can break rules, too. Goodbye.
>> Connection closed by foreign host.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Copy for the list, because I forget to select "Reply to All":
>>>
>>> I think you probably should not have quotes around that Subject line.
>>>
>>> Ralph Mitchell
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>  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.name25".  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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