[Xymon] xymon-mailack

[Ray Reuter]

The server is accepting emails, the /var/mail/xymon has all of the
responses I have sent back via the alerts, but they never seem to make it
to the.procmailrc script or the Mailbox and nothing is logging in the
procmail.log.



On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com>wrote:

>  What’s your procmail log file say.****
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> Paul Root    - Senior Engineer****
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> Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink****
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> *From:* Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:47 AM
> *To:* Root, Paul
> *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack****
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> okay made a lot of progress now. It arrived at the server but never seems
> to either get parsed by the .procmail in the xymon home directory or not
> being processed correctly. Any ideas?****
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> Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from
> domain.domain.com[10.1.5.176]****
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> Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9: client=
> domain.domin.com[10.1.5.176]****
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> Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9: message-id=<
> DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com>****
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> Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: from=<
> Raymond.Reuter at domain.org>, size=1859, nrcpt=1 (queue active)****
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> Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from
> domain.domain.com[10.1.5.176]****
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> Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/local[31089]: 4F53752F9: to=<
> xymon at domain.domain.com>, relay=local, delay=0.02, delays=0/0.01/0/0.01,
> dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)****
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> Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed****
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> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com>
> wrote:****
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> That error is postfix tell you it can’t deliver.  Did you edit
> /etc/postfix/main.cf and at least set the ‘myhostname’ variable to the
> fqdn for your host?****
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> Paul Root    - Senior Engineer****
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> Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink****
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> *From:* Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:30 AM
> *To:* Jeremy Laidman
> *Cc:* Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com; Root, Paul
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack****
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> 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.****
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> [root at xxxcacti2 ~]# telnet XXXXXXXX.xxx.com 25****
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> Trying 10.1.72.168...****
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> Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com (xx.xx.x.x).****
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> Escape character is '^]'.****
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> 220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com ESMTP Postfix****
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> helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com****
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> 250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com****
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> MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com****
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> 250 2.1.0 Ok****
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> RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com****
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> 250 2.1.5 Ok****
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> "SUBJECT: Xymon"****
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> 221 2.7.0 Error: I can break rules, too. Goodbye.****
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> Connection closed by foreign host.****
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> 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.****
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> drwxr-xr-x.  2 xymon xymon  4096 Oct  2 11:02 Mailbox****
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> -rw-r--r--.  1 xymon xymon     0 Oct  1 12:15 procmail.log****
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> -rwxr-xr-x.  1 xymon xymon   124 Oct  2 11:04 .procmailrc****
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> 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.****
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> 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.***
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> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>
> wrote:****
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> On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:****
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> I am using Centos 6.2****
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> By default Centos (aka Red Hat) v6 boxes run postfix (rather than
> Sendmail).****
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>  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.
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> 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.****
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> 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.name 25".
>  If you get a "connection refused" or similar message, than you need to
> reconfigure Postfix to accept remote connections.****
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>  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.****
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> 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.****
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