[Xymon] New Xymon Server email

[Kris Springer]

I've just spent half my day attempting to get Postfix to function, 
without success.   My ISP blocks port 25, so I've attempted to setup the 
TLS relay to my SMTP host, but that doesn't work either.  Gone are the 
days of just editing a few configs and then everything works.  I've read 
more how-to's than I want to count, and none actually work.  If Xymon 
has 'alerts' built-in shouldn't it roll in an actual email relay tool 
that users can enter their basic SMTP server credentials and it just 
works?  Can someone offer some sane assistance please?  I'm beating my 
head against the wall at this point.

Kris Springer


On 1/10/20 7:07 AM, Root, Paul T wrote:
> Postfix is the newer mail program.
>
> /etc/postfix/main.cf
>
> You'll want to set myhostname, myorigin, inet_interfaces, my_destination, and maybe relayhost.
>
> They are pretty self expanitory.
>
> You might also need to look at the firewall.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> On Behalf Of Kris Springer
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2020 3:56 PM
> To: Xymon MailingList <xymon at xymon.com>
> Subject: [Xymon] New Xymon Server email
>
> I just built a new Ubuntu 19.10 server and installed Xymon server on it
> using the premade apt package.  I've got working hosts.cfg,
> analysis.cfg, and client-local.cfg.  The webpage works fine and client
> data flows in and displays accurately.
>
> I've also configured alerts.cfg to email me for everything, but I'm not
> receiving any emails in my mailbox.  In the past when I've built a xymon
> server box I installed Sendmail that took care of sending the emails
> out.  But this is 2020 and I'm assuming something else is built into the
> Xymon Server code that does the emailing.  What am I missing here?  Do I
> still need to install a separate mailer?
>
> --
>
> Kris Springer
>
>
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