[Xymon] xymon-mailack

[Ray Reuter]

Tried it without the quotes a second ago as well.

250 2.1.5 Ok
SUBJECT: xymon
221 2.7.0 Error: I can break rules, too. Goodbye.
Connection closed by foreign host.


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:

> Copy for the list, because I forget to select "Reply to All":
>
> I think you probably should not have quotes around that Subject line.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  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.
>>
>> [root at xxxcacti2 ~]# telnet XXXXXXXX.xxx.com 25
>> Trying 10.1.72.168...
>> Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com (xx.xx.x.x).
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> 220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com ESMTP Postfix
>> helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com
>> 250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com
>> MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com
>> 250 2.1.0 Ok
>> RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com
>> 250 2.1.5 Ok
>> "SUBJECT: Xymon"
>> 221 2.7.0 Error: I can break rules, too. Goodbye.
>> Connection closed by foreign host.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> drwxr-xr-x.  2 xymon xymon  4096 Oct  2 11:02 Mailbox
>> -rw-r--r--.  1 xymon xymon     0 Oct  1 12:15 procmail.log
>> -rwxr-xr-x.  1 xymon xymon   124 Oct  2 11:04 .procmailrc
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>wrote:
>>
>>> On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am using Centos 6.2
>>>
>>>
>>> By default Centos (aka Red Hat) v6 boxes run postfix (rather than
>>> Sendmail).
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.name25".  If you get a "connection refused" or similar message, than you need
>>> to reconfigure Postfix to accept remote connections.
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>>
>>
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