[Xymon] xymon-mailack

[Ray Reuter]

So is this how you made the mailack work for xymon?

I am not sure what my alias should be pointing to?Not sure what your script
does.

Again thank you

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sorry, didn't type that bit...  Anywhere in /etc/aliases will do, then run
>  "newaliases" to recreate the db files that the mailer actually reads from.
>
> Ralph
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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