[Xymon] xymon-mailack

[Ray Reuter]

I have the line now looking like this.

xymon:          "| $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack
--env=$HOME/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg"

Mail does not seem to be processed by this either. The mail never makes it
to the Mailbox/new directory though so now I am not sure where the email is
going;

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've never used xymon-mailack, but I have used pipe-via-alias working for
> email delivery of status reports.
>
> However, I just took a look at the man page for xymon-mailack, and it
> seems likely that that alias can use the exact same pipeline as given for
> both procmail and qmail:
>
>    | /home/xymon/server/bin/xymon-mailack .......
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So is this how you made the mailack work for xymon?
>>
>> I am not sure what my alias should be pointing to?Not sure what your
>> script does.
>>
>> Again thank you
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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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