[Xymon] xymon-mailack

[Ralph Mitchell]

I don't know about procmail as such, but I have had some success using
email aliases.  You can add a line like this:

xymon: "| /usr/local/bin/email_processor.sh"

then run "newaliases", then any email arriving for the xymon user gets
piped through the script.  Everything up to the first blank line is a
header.  Everything after that blank line is the body of the email.

I know procmail does something similar, I just don't know what, or how...

Ralph Mitchell


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:

> The messages are making it to var/mail/xymon without an issue now.
>
> But the .procmailrc file and rocmail.log file do not seem to either get
> engaged in to the process or something else is missing.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>wrote:
>
>> On 29 September 2012 02:51, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have created the .procmailrc file it looks like this. The file is in
>>> /home/xymon 755 permissions and owned by xymon:xymon I tried the ownership
>>> as root as well.
>>>
>>> DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox
>>> LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log
>>> :0
>>> | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
>>>
>>>
>>> When I run it on the CLI using this command
>>>
>>> ./xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg --debug
>>>
>>> I get nothing, it just returns an empty line, and sits there. I must be
>>> missing something.
>>>
>>
>> Yes you are.  The xymon-mailack program expects an email message on
>> standard input, and if run on the command-line your keyboard becomes
>> standard input.  You can do something like this:
>>
>> xymon-mailack --env=... < sample-email
>>
>> But first you need to put an email message into the file "sample-mail".
>>  You could create a file like this by temporarily removing the .procmailrc
>> file (to let messages go into the xymon user's mailbox) and then sending
>> the xymon user an email, and then copying a mail message from
>> /var/mail/xymon.  Note that the mailbox file can contain multiple messages
>> each separated by blank line+"From " (from-space), and you only want one of
>> them.
>>
>> J
>>
>>
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