[Xymon] xymon-mailack

[Ralph Mitchell]

The sequence appears to be

HELO server.domain.com
MAIL FROM: me at here.com
RCPT TO: you at there.com
DATA
Subject: this is the subject line
first line of message
second line of message
.
QUIT


I just tried that, and it delivered. with the Subject line among the
headers.  Odd, but it worked...

Ralph Mitchell


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>
>>
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