[Xymon] xymon-mailack
Novosielski, Ryan
novosirj at umdnj.edu
Tue Oct 2 21:04:25 CEST 2012
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Is there any particular reason to use procmail at all, especially if
you don't use this e-mail address to receive any other type of mail? I
just use .forward.
On 10/02/2012 03:02 PM, Root, Paul wrote:
> Do you have the procmail hooks in the postfix config files?
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> If not, do you have your .forward setup to send stuff to procmail?
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> Paul Root - Senior Engineer
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> Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
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> *From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday,
> October 02, 2012 1:57 PM *To:* Root, Paul *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman;
> Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon]
> xymon-mailack
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> The server is accepting emails, the /var/mail/xymon has all of the
> responses I have sent back via the alerts, but they never seem to
> make it to the.procmailrc script or the Mailbox and nothing is
> logging in the procmail.log.
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> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Root, Paul
> <Paul.Root at centurylink.com <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>>
> wrote:
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> What’s your procmail log file say.
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> Paul Root - Senior Engineer
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> Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
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> *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
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> 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?
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> Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from
> domain.domain.com <http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176]
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> Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9:
> client=domain.domin.com <http://domain.domin.com>[10.1.5.176]
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> Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9:
> message-id=<DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com
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<mailto:DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com>>
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> 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)
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> Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from
> domain.domain.com <http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176]
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> 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)
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> Oct 2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed
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> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul
> <Paul.Root at centurylink.com <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>>
> wrote:
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> 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?
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> Paul Root - Senior Engineer
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> Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
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> *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
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> 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.
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> [root at xxxcacti2 ~]# telnet XXXXXXXX.xxx.com
> <http://XXXXXXXX.xxx.com> 25
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> Trying 10.1.72.168...
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> Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com <http://XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com>
> (xx.xx.x.x).
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> Escape character is '^]'.
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> 220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> ESMTP Postfix
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> helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com>
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> 250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXX.lvh.com>
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> MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com <mailto:raymond.reuter at xxx.com>
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> 250 2.1.0 Ok
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> RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com <mailto:xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com>
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> 250 2.1.5 Ok
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> "SUBJECT: Xymon"
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> 221 2.7.0 Error: I can break rules, too. Goodbye.
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> Connection closed by foreign host.
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> 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.
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> drwxr-xr-x. 2 xymon xymon 4096 Oct 2 11:02 Mailbox
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> -rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon 0 Oct 1 12:15 procmail.log
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> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 xymon xymon 124 Oct 2 11:04 .procmailrc
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com
> <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> I am using Centos 6.2
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> By default Centos (aka Red Hat) v6 boxes run postfix (rather than
> Sendmail).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> J
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