[Xymon] xymon-mailack

[Ralph Mitchell]

Do you even have an email receiver running on your xymon server?  Try to
telnet to port 25 on the server:

     telnet  server.domain.com  25

If that fails to connect, you won't be able to receive email either.

Ralph Mitchell


On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am using Centos 6.2
> Kernel Linux 2.6.32-200.231.el6.i686
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu>wrote:
>
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>> On 10/01/2012 11:48 AM, Ray Reuter wrote:
>> > I created the .procmail file as per the man pages, installed
>> > procmail but nothing seems to work when replying to the alerts sent
>> > by my xymon server.
>> >
>> > The "Mailbox" in the .procmail file is it a file or a directory?
>> > Does anyone who has this working know what the permissions and
>> > owner ship of the .procmail file should be?
>> >
>> > Everyone on this mailing list has been instrumental with helping
>> > me through some of the issue I have had. I wish I were more of a
>> > Linux guru but I am not and the company I work for does not have a
>> > true Linux engineer, he has less experience then I do.
>>
>> There will probably be a log for this somewhere of what is going on. I
>> don't think you said what OS or any of that. Regardless, you will
>> probably do better Googling for information about the use of the
>> Procmail RC file (nothing much to do with Xymon). I don't remember
>> having any particular trouble with this. You'd need to know whether
>> your MTA even uses procmail though, I think. I personally used a
>> .forward file that is at least used by Sendmail (which is what I'm
>> using -- don't recall whether it supports procmail which is for mail
>> filtering).
>>
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