[Xymon] xymon-mailack

[Ray Reuter]

Thank you Ralph, where would the line below go?

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't know about procmail as such, but I have had some success using
> email aliases.  You can add a line like this:
>
> xymon: "| /usr/local/bin/email_processor.sh"
>
> then run "newaliases", then any email arriving for the xymon user gets
> piped through the script.  Everything up to the first blank line is a
> header.  Everything after that blank line is the body of the email.
>
> I know procmail does something similar, I just don't know what, or how...
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The messages are making it to var/mail/xymon without an issue now.
>>
>> But the .procmailrc file and rocmail.log file do not seem to either get
>> engaged in to the process or something else is missing.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 29 September 2012 02:51, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have created the .procmailrc file it looks like this. The file is in
>>>> /home/xymon 755 permissions and owned by xymon:xymon I tried the ownership
>>>> as root as well.
>>>>
>>>> DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox
>>>> LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log
>>>> :0
>>>> | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When I run it on the CLI using this command
>>>>
>>>> ./xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg --debug
>>>>
>>>> I get nothing, it just returns an empty line, and sits there. I must be
>>>> missing something.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes you are.  The xymon-mailack program expects an email message on
>>> standard input, and if run on the command-line your keyboard becomes
>>> standard input.  You can do something like this:
>>>
>>> xymon-mailack --env=... < sample-email
>>>
>>> But first you need to put an email message into the file "sample-mail".
>>>  You could create a file like this by temporarily removing the .procmailrc
>>> file (to let messages go into the xymon user's mailbox) and then sending
>>> the xymon user an email, and then copying a mail message from
>>> /var/mail/xymon.  Note that the mailbox file can contain multiple messages
>>> each separated by blank line+"From " (from-space), and you only want one of
>>> them.
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>>
>>
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