[Xymon] xymon-mailack

[Ralph Mitchell]

Trying changing $HOME to the actual location of the xymon home.

Ralph Mitchell
 On Oct 2, 2012 7:25 PM, "Ray Reuter" <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have the line now looking like this.
>
> xymon:          "| $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack
> --env=$HOME/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg"
>
> Mail does not seem to be processed by this either. The mail never makes it
> to the Mailbox/new directory though so now I am not sure where the email is
> going;
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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