Re: [xymon] smtp/smtps tests against postfix generate errors on server

[Shawn Heisey <hobbit (at) elyograg.org>]

On 11/21/2010 8:36 AM, White, Bruce wrote:
> You can change what Xymon sends during an smtp test by editing the
> <install dir>/etc/bb-services file.

That helped me eliminate the error from the log.  I put in this for smtp 
with a similar setup for smtps, it seems to work:

[smtp]
   send "mail\r\n"
   expect "503"
   send "quit\r\n"
   expect "220"
   options banner
   port 25

This does not actually work completely as expected.  After I looked at 
what it was doing, I would have expected it to fail, because the last 
thing the server says is "221 2.0.0 Bye".  This doesn't seem to matter, 
the 220 that it received as part of the initial banner was enough to 
make the test succeed.  If the test were working as I had expected, this 
would be the correct configuration:

[smtp]
   expect "220"
   send "mail\r\n"
   expect "503"
   send "quit\r\n"
   expect "221"
   options banner
   port 25

With either of the configs above, the "503" error from the mail command 
is not shown in the results on the webpage.

Thanks,
Shawn