[Xymon] xymon-mailack

[Ralph Mitchell]

I've never used xymon-mailack, but I have used pipe-via-alias working for
email delivery of status reports.

However, I just took a look at the man page for xymon-mailack, and it seems
likely that that alias can use the exact same pipeline as given for both
procmail and qmail:

   | /home/xymon/server/bin/xymon-mailack .......

Ralph Mitchell


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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