[Xymon] xymonnet additional capability -- pause

[Michael T Pins]

On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 4:11 PM Shawn Heisey <hobbit at elyograg.org> wrote:

> Over ten years ago, I asked on this list how I could get rid of the
> "incorrect pipelining message" logged by postfix every time the smtp,
> smtps, or submission tests are done.

> https://lists.xymon.com/oldarchive/2010/11/msg00207.html

> The fix that I claim worked (multiple send commands) was for a job I had
> at the time.  Now I am have a personal mail server (that also runs
> xymon) and that fix I mentioned so long ago is not working.

> I tweaked the code to allow a "pause" action in protocols.cfg and after
> modifying protocols.cfg to utilize it, I have eliminated the "incorrect
> command pipelining" message in mail.log.  Here's the patch:

[ code elided ]

A much simpler method that works for me, talking to both postfix and
sendmail, is simply adding an expect to the test in protocols.cfg:

$ diff protocols.cfg.bak protocols.cfg
70c70,72
<    send "mail\r\nquit\r\n"
---
>    send "mail\r\n
>    expect "501"
>    quit\r\n"