Postfix / mail

[El-Marty]

Hello,

I'm using a gentoo server to monitor my networks.
What I'm trying to do is send a mail from a local user (nagios) to another local user (root, or something else.), and when I get mail, the mail shold be parsed though a script, and then be sent directly to my cell phone as an sms.
Now everyting seems ok, but I'm actually having problems recieving mail on my local account. should be the ONE thing that is pretty straight-forward on a linux box. haha.

I use postfix as a sendmail agent, and the following output is logged after sending a mail from martinn to root:

Jun 17 17:42:20 super postfix/pickup[30937]: 5EB36B80C9: uid=1001 from=<martinn>
Jun 17 17:42:20 super postfix/cleanup[30942]: 5EB36B80C9: message-id=<20070617154220.5EB36B80C9@localhost>
Jun 17 17:42:20 super postfix/qmgr[30938]: 5EB36B80C9: from=<martinn@localhost.xxxx.xx>, size=297, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jun 17 17:42:20 super postfix/local[30944]: 5EB36B80C9: to=<root@localhost.xxx.xx>, orig_to=<root@localhost>, relay=local, delay=0.14, delays=0.09/0.01/0/0.04, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir)
Jun 17 17:42:20 super postfix/qmgr[30938]: 5EB36B80C9: removed
Jun 17 17:46:50 super postfix/postfix-script: refreshing the Postfix mail system
Jun 17 17:46:50 super postfix/master[30936]: reload configuration /etc/postfix

seems ok then.
This is important parts of my etc/postfix/main.cf:

home_mailbox = Mailbox
mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail
home_mailbox = .maildir/
mynetworks_style = host
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
inet_interfaces = $myhostname, localhost
myhostname = localhost
mydomain = xxxxx.xx

an ls of var/spool/mail:

ls -l /var/spool/mail
total 0
---------- 1 root root 0 Apr 12 15:29 admin
---------- 1 root root 0 Apr 12 12:07 apache
---------- 1 root root 0 Apr 11 16:19 cron
---------- 1 root root 0 Jun 17 14:58 mail2sms
---------- 1 root root 0 May 10 12:35 martinn
---------- 1 root root 0 Apr 12 13:24 mysql
---------- 1 root root 0 Apr 12 13:46 nagios
---------- 1 root root 0 Apr 12 12:10 ntp
---------- 1 root root 0 Jun 17 17:07 postfix
---------- 1 root root 0 Jun 6 16:23 rancid

Now, postfix seems to be working just fine, this is the root mail folder:

super new # pwd;ls -l
/root/.maildir/new
total 20
-rw------- 1 root root 390 Jun 17 17:18 1182093484.V6802I3f4a97M779307.super.xxxx.xx
-rw------- 1 root root 395 Jun 17 17:21 1182093668.V6802I3f4a9aM837321.super.xxxx.xx
-rw------- 1 root root 421 Jun 17 17:28 1182094126.V6802I3f4a9bM502869.super.xxxx.xx
-rw------- 1 root root 401 Jun 17 17:38 1182094732.V6802I3f4a9cM799604.super.xxxx.xx
-rw------- 1 root root 398 Jun 17 17:42 1182094940.V6802I3f4a9dM444544.super.xxxx.xx

Now, if we take a look at the newest mail here:

super new # cat *444544*
Return-Path: <martinn@localhost.xxxx.xx>
X-Original-To: root@localhost
Delivered-To: root@localhost.xxxxx.xx
Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1001)
id 5EB36B80C9; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:42:20 +0200 (CEST)
To: root@localhost.xxxx.xx
Subject: terstgrkgm
Message-Id: <20070617154220.5EB36B80C9@localhost>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:42:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: martinn@localhost.xxxx.xx

ffff

super new #

This the mail that I sent fram martinn to root, so it has gotten here, but when I run the following command:
super new # mail
No mail for root
super new #

Then it says I have no new mail.
Well, is it wrong to use the 'mail' command??
Or am i using it wrong?
I cannot use any graphic mail clients since the mail should be parsed through a script.
But my thought (just now really) is can I parse the files in the /root/.mail/new/ directory and just send them as sms 's and then remove them? wouldn't that do the trick? Or is it any way I can use the 'mail' client to read these mails?
In the near future I would like to include these nagios mails into my CVS system. But maybe the mail files just kan be parsed with cvs, instead of being 'read' with a mail client?

Thanks for help!

\\martinn

[buzzin]

not quite a fix to your problem... But im thinking that maybe you could install procmail and get postfix to deliver to that. Then you can use procmail rules to do loads of scripting or just call an external script for each mail.

[Princess Nell]

I would think that /bin/mail doesn't support maildir. Install, even for testing only, a cmd line mail
client like mutt to read those mails.

Yes, procmail is definitely the way to go.

[kashani]

The mail command does not support maildir so if can't tell you if you have mail.

Personally I wouldn't run any scripts and would instead have Nagios use it's internal logic, which is pretty powerful, to decide whether to send you an email or a page on it's own.

kashani
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