[Xymon] xymon-mailack

Tue Oct 2 21:20:08 CEST 2012

Well, the procmail setup can filter out mail bounces and such, and also parse to only accept mail from people in a given list.

You could do that in your own script as well I suppose, but why reinvent the wheel.

Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Novosielski, Ryan [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 2:04 PM
> To: Root, Paul
> Cc: 'Ray Reuter'; Jeremy Laidman; xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
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> Is there any particular reason to use procmail at all, especially if
> you don't use this e-mail address to receive any other type of mail? I
> just use .forward.
> 
> On 10/02/2012 03:02 PM, Root, Paul wrote:
> > Do you have the procmail hooks in the postfix config files?
> >
> >
> >
> > If not, do you have your .forward setup to send stuff to procmail?
> >
> >
> >
> > Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
> >
> > Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday,
> > October 02, 2012 1:57 PM *To:* Root, Paul *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman;
> > Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon]
> > xymon-mailack
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > What's your procmail log file say.
> >
> >
> >
> > Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
> >
> > Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com
> > <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 <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon]
> > xymon-mailack
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from
> > domain.domain.com <http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176]
> >
> > Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9:
> > client=domain.domin.com <http://domain.domin.com>[10.1.5.176]
> >
> > Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9:
> > message-
> id=<DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com
> >
> >
> <mailto:DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com>>
> >
> > Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9:
> > from=<Raymond.Reuter at domain.org
> > <mailto:Raymond.Reuter at domain.org>>, size=1859, nrcpt=1 (queue
> > active)
> >
> > Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from
> > domain.domain.com <http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176]
> >
> > Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/local[31089]: 4F53752F9:
> > to=<xymon at domain.domain.com <mailto: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)
> >
> > Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul
> > <Paul.Root at centurylink.com <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > That error is postfix tell you it can't deliver.  Did you edit
> > /etc/postfix/main.cf <http://main.cf> and at least set the
> > 'myhostname' variable to the fqdn for your host?
> >
> >
> >
> > Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
> >
> > Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com
> > <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012
> > 10:30 AM *To:* Jeremy Laidman *Cc:* Ryan Novosielski;
> > xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>; Root, Paul *Subject:* Re:
> > [Xymon] xymon-mailack
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> > <http://XXXXXXXX.xxx.com> 25
> >
> > Trying 10.1.72.168...
> >
> > Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com <http://XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com>
> > (xx.xx.x.x).
> >
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> >
> > 220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> ESMTP Postfix
> >
> > helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com>
> >
> > 250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXX.lvh.com>
> >
> > MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com <mailto:raymond.reuter at xxx.com>
> >
> > 250 2.1.0 Ok
> >
> > RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com <mailto: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 <mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com
> > <mailto: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.name <http://xymon.server.name> 25".  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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