[Xymon] xymon-mailack

[Ralph Mitchell]

Sorry, didn't type that bit...  Anywhere in /etc/aliases will do, then run
 "newaliases" to recreate the db files that the mailer actually reads from.

Ralph


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Ralph, where would the line below go?
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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