[Xymon] xymon-mailack

[Ray Reuter]

yes they should be owned by xymon with 755 as the permissions? And if they
are correct where should I be looking as to why the emails are not getting
parsed or even showing up in the procmail.log file

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com>wrote:

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> Paul Root    - Senior Engineer****
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> Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink****
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> *From:* Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 12:27 PM
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> *To:* Root, Paul
> *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack****
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> The procmail.log file is still empty. ****
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> Should they (.procmairc procmail.log  Mailbox "still not sure if this is a
> directory or file ) be owned by xymon or root and what the permissions
> should be.****
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> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com>
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> What’s your procmail log file say.****
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> Paul Root    - Senior Engineer****
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> *From:* Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:47 AM
> *To:* Root, Paul
> *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack****
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> okay made a lot of progress now. It arrived at the server but never seems
> to either get parsed by the .procmail in the xymon home directory or not
> being processed correctly. Any ideas?****
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> Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from
> domain.domain.com[10.1.5.176]****
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> Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9: client=
> domain.domin.com[10.1.5.176]****
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> Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9: message-id=<
> DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com>****
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> Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: from=<
> Raymond.Reuter at domain.org>, size=1859, nrcpt=1 (queue active)****
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> Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from
> domain.domain.com[10.1.5.176]****
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> Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/local[31089]: 4F53752F9: to=<
> xymon at domain.domain.com>, relay=local, delay=0.02, delays=0/0.01/0/0.01,
> dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)****
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> Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed****
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> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com>
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> That error is postfix tell you it can’t deliver.  Did you edit
> /etc/postfix/main.cf and at least set the ‘myhostname’ variable to the
> fqdn for your host?****
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> Paul Root    - Senior Engineer****
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> Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink****
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> *From:* Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:30 AM
> *To:* Jeremy Laidman
> *Cc:* Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com; Root, Paul
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack****
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> Well we are getting closer. I am now able to telnet to the server. I tried
> to send mail to the server but kicked off every time i try to do the
> subject line.****
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> [root at xxxcacti2 ~]# telnet XXXXXXXX.xxx.com 25****
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> Trying 10.1.72.168...****
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> Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com (xx.xx.x.x).****
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> Escape character is '^]'.****
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> 220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com ESMTP Postfix****
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> helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com****
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> 250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com****
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> MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com****
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> 250 2.1.0 Ok****
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> RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com****
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> 250 2.1.5 Ok****
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> "SUBJECT: Xymon"****
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> 221 2.7.0 Error: I can break rules, too. Goodbye.****
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> Connection closed by foreign host.****
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> I have the .procmailrc file set up as per the xymon man page, still not
> sure if the "Mailbox" is a directory or file. and the directory structure
> of the xymon home directory looks like this.****
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> drwxr-xr-x.  2 xymon xymon  4096 Oct  2 11:02 Mailbox****
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> -rw-r--r--.  1 xymon xymon     0 Oct  1 12:15 procmail.log****
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> -rwxr-xr-x.  1 xymon xymon   124 Oct  2 11:04 .procmailrc****
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> This feature is one of the most important to the company I work for and
> have been trying to get it to work for a couple of days now. We even added
> an MX record for the server so mail can be delivered to it directly. Telnet
> works locally and remote.****
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> Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated, you have all been a huge
> help so far and this monitoring tool has done wonders for this company.***
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> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>
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> On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:****
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> I am using Centos 6.2****
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> By default Centos (aka Red Hat) v6 boxes run postfix (rather than
> Sendmail).****
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>  During my install I do not remember installing anything as the mail
> transport, but the alerting was working right out of the box from day one.
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> Initially, postfix is configured so it won't accept SMTP connections from
> off the box.  So outbound emails will get sent OK, but incoming emails will
> not get delivered to the Xymon server.****
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> Test this by attempting to telnet to the Xymon server on port 25 from
> another device, such as a Windows PC, with "telnet xymon.server.name 25".
>  If you get a "connection refused" or similar message, than you need to
> reconfigure Postfix to accept remote connections.****
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>  I followed the man page for the mailack and created everything as per
> the instructions, but I am not even sure the mail is reaching the server at
> this point.****
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> Probably not.  Have a look at the "STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README" file
> that came with Postfix for instructions on setting things up, particularly
> the "Postfix on a local network" section.****
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