XYMON-MAILACK(8) System Manager's Manual XYMON-MAILACK(8) NAME xymon-mailack - permit acknowledging alerts via e-mail SYNOPSIS xymon-mailack --env=FILENAME [--debug] DESCRIPTION xymon-mailack normally runs as an input mail-filter for the xymon user, e.g. by being called from the xymon users' procmailrc(5) file. xy- mon-mailack recognizes e-mails that are replies to xymond_alert(8) mail alerts, and converts the reply mail into an acknowledge message that is sent to the Xymon system. This permits an administrator to acknowledge an alert via e-mail. ADDING INFORMATION TO THE REPLY MAIL By default, an acknowledgment is valid for 1 hour. If you know in advance that solving the problem is going to take longer, you can change this by adding delay=DURATION to the subject of your mail reply or on a line in the reply message. Duration is in minutes, unless you add a trailing 'h' (for 'hours'), 'd' (for 'days') or 'w' (for 'weeks'). You can also include a message that will show up on the status-page to- gether with the acknowledgment, e.g. to provide an explanation for the is- sue or some other information to the users. You can either put it at the end of the subject line as msg=Some random text, or you can just enter it in the e-mail as the first non-blank line of text in the mail (a "delay=N" line is ignored when looking for the message text). USE WITH PROCMAIL To setup xymon-mailack, create a .procmailrc file in the xymon-users home- directory with the following contents: DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log :0 | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=$HOME/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg USE WITH QMAIL If you are using Qmail to deliver mail locally, you can run xymon-mailack directly from a .qmail file. Setup the xymon-users .qmail file like this: | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=$HOME/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg OPTIONS --env=FILENAME Load environment from FILENAME, usually xymonserver.cfg. --debugDon't send a message to xymond, but dump the message to stdout. SEE ALSO xymond_alert(8), xymond(8), xymon(7) Xymon Version 4.3.30: 4 Sep 2019 XYMON-MAILACK(8)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | ADDING INFORMATION TO THE REPLY MAIL | USE WITH PROCMAIL | USE WITH QMAIL | OPTIONS | SEE ALSO
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