[Xymon] xymon-mailack

[Root, Paul]

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Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink


From: Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 12:27 PM
To: Root, Paul
Cc: Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack

The procmail.log file is still empty.

Should they (.procmairc procmail.log  Mailbox "still not sure if this is a directory or file ) be owned by xymon or root and what the permissions should be.



On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com<mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote:
What's your procmail log file say.

Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink


From: Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com<mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:47 AM
To: Root, Paul
Cc: Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack

okay made a lot of progress now. It arrived at the server but never seems to either get parsed by the .procmail in the xymon home directory or not being processed correctly. Any ideas?

Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from domain.domain.com<http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176]
Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9: client=domain.domin.com<http://domain.domin.com>[10.1.5.176]
Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9: message-id=<DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com<mailto:DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com>>
Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: from=<Raymond.Reuter at domain.org<mailto:Raymond.Reuter at domain.org>>, size=1859, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from domain.domain.com<http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176]
Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/local[31089]: 4F53752F9: to=<xymon at domain.domain.com<mailto:xymon at domain.domain.com>>, relay=local, delay=0.02, delays=0/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed



On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com<mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote:
That error is postfix tell you it can't deliver.  Did you edit /etc/postfix/main.cf<http://main.cf> and at least set the 'myhostname' variable to the fqdn for your host?

Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink


From: Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com<mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:30 AM
To: Jeremy Laidman
Cc: Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>; Root, Paul
Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack

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<http://XXXXXXXX.xxx.com> 25
Trying 10.1.72.168...
Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com<http://XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com> (xx.xx.x.x).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> ESMTP Postfix
helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com>
250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com<http://XXXXXXX.lvh.com>
MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com<mailto:raymond.reuter at xxx.com>
250 2.1.0 Ok
RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com<mailto: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<mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>> wrote:
On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com<mailto: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<http://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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