Authenticated SMTP How-To

[kerridge0]

did you put all three arguments in quotes?

as per http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showpost...30&postcount=6

e.g.

..
export zabbixemailto="$1"
export zabbixsubject="$2"
export zabbixbody="$3"
..

I can't comment on the postfix part of it because it's all greek to me...

[Thyagaraj]

Is there any way so that I force zabbix to send email

[Thyagaraj]

Yes, after putting in quotes it's working on one machine and on another machine it's not working, facing same problem even after putting quotes. In Audit>actions it is showing that the message is sent but it is not in the inbox

[Colttt]

Yes, after putting in quotes it's working on one machine and on another machine it's not working, facing same problem even after putting quotes. In Audit>actions it is showing that the message is sent but it is not in the inbox

i have the same problem too..
but i think it depends on the error message, its a single-line it works for example:

{TRIGGER.NAME}: {STATUS}

but it dont works in mulitple lines, for example:

{DATE} - {TIME}
Host: {HOSTNAME}
Auslöser: {TRIGGER.NAME}: {STATUS}
last Value: {ITEM.LASTVALUE}

have somebody an idea how can i fix it?! i use sendEmail..

export zabbixemailto="$1"
export zabbixsubject="$2"
export zabbixbody="$3"

[tekknokrat]

Honesly, if you can do a 6 step tutorial, for a secured and closed smtp server with the nice redirection to an authenticated server, I'll switch to exim4 and you'll help a lots of people

After 2 years a simple setup using exim4 (debian/ubuntu packages) in 6 steps:

1. apt-get install exim4-daemon-light

2. In postconfig dialog select the "smarthost; no local mail" setup

Configure the smtp server of your email provider as smarthost.

Alternatively you can hold your config like this:

/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf

dc_eximconfig_configtype='satellite'
dc_other_hostnames='yourhost'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1 ; ::1'
dc_readhost='yourhost'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='your.providers.smtp.server.here'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='true'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'

3. modify /etc/email-addresses:

# Add this entry
zabbix: [email protected]

4. modify /etc/exim4/password-file:

# Add this entry
your.providers.smtp.server.here:yoursmptusername:yoursmptpassword

5. /etc/init.d/exim4 reload

6. Zabbix email setup will finally only consists of a single localhost (or more explicitly for ipv4 127.0.0.1) entry without credentials given. Every mail the user "zabbix" sends is now relayed to external via your providers smtp server.

[Bill Wang]

Mark this thread, I'll try the second solution later

[cicciopolenta]

Hey guys,

HEre is my contribution for my first post.
I solved the same issue with "delegate" wich emulate all kinds of proxy :

1) Download delegate on the website or from your repositories ;
2) Compile it if you have to, it's so simple : "make" on the folder ;
3) "mv" it from ./src/ to /usr/bin/ directory
4) run => delegated -v SERVER="smtp://yoursmtp.com" -P25 MYAUTH=$USER:$PW
5) Its ok, you just have to set up localhost has your smtp server in zabbix

I can put the init.d script if someone is interested

I use windows server and dg9.9.7.. I made exactly what you did but i have ELHO-- "wrong answer on HELO [500 Authentication error. ]" Please Help

[niceguy167]

Neeing help with configuring email.
I am tring to use the delegated method
however when it trys to send an email i get
SMTP > 535 Incorrect authentication data
I cannot seam to fix this.
I have also tried a script method but I do not quite understand the variabls in the php part of zabbix.
I am using zabbix 1.8 and i dont know what to do with the $1 $2 $3
any help is greatly appricated.
Thanks
Steven

[zero48]

Works Perfectly Thanks

Easy , Easy , Easy !!!

Alternatively you can use sendEmail.

1) apt-get install sendEmail

2) Create a script "zabbix_sendemail" (chmod 755) in the AlertScriptsPath folder specified by /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
--------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh

export [email protected]
export zabbixemailto=$1
export zabbixsubject=$2
export zabbixbody=$3
export smtpserver=yoursmtpserver.com
export smtplogin=smtpuser
export smtppass=smtppassword

/usr/bin/sendEmail -f $smtpemailfrom -t $zabbixemailto -u $zabbixsubject -m $zabbixbody -s $smtpserver:25 -xu $smtplogin -xp $smtppass
--------------------------------------

3) Set the Action (Configurations / Actions in the php frontend)

4) Set the Media Type (Administration / Media types in the php frontend) script to zabbix_sendemail

5) Add the Media to the user (Administration / Users / user in php frontend)

[lsegalla]

on OPENSUSE?

I'm using a Virtual Appliance (OpenSuse) and i can't start none of the setup you wrote here. In my particular case, using OpenSuse i tried the following:

1. went to http://nbsmtp.ferdyx.org/ but the link seems to be dead

2. tried to install sendEmail, but you wrote an apt-get command which is for debian-based distro(s); i tried then "zypper search sendEmail", and also searching with yast but i've found nothing

3. tried the exim4 way but also zypper does not find anything

However i've seen that i have installed an exim (version 1??) but the files and the path seems to be different. How can i send mails using OpenSuse in a Virtual Appliance then?

[simoon]

SenEmail is available here:

http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/

Works like a charm

[lsegalla]

SendEmail installed in OPENSUSE

Ok, here it is what worked for me, in OPENSUSE (Virtual Appliance)

I got the .tar.gz using wget; after that i was in /root and i did this:

tar xzvf tar -zxvf sendEmail-v1.56.tar.gz
cp -a sendEmail-v1.56/sendEmail /usr/local/bin
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sendEmail

Now i can run sendEmail; so i tried again with the step 2 of the solution proposed by dreas and i created a script "zabbix_sendemail" (chmod 755) in /home/zabbix/bin/ and went into /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf putting a new line:

AlertScriptsPath=/home/zabbix/bin

(ps: initially i used the path /home/zabbix/bin/ but after seeing log i deleted the last “/“ char)

I also needed to install other packets to use TLS:

zypper install perl-Net-SSLeay  perl-Crypt-SSLeay
zypper install perl-IO-Socket-SSL perl-Socket-MsgHdr

Then i forced a mail from console:

# sendEmail -f $smtpemailfrom -t $zabbixemailto -u $zabbixsubject -m $zabbixbody -s $smtpserver:25 -xu $smtplogin -xp $smtppass -o tls=yes
May 07 10:28:49 linux-24oe sendEmail[3916]: Email was sent successfully!

Also i tested functionality of the script

./zabbix_sendemail **********@gmail.com object_string body_string
May 07 10:45:17 linux-24oe sendEmail[2915]: Email was sent successfully!

When i was waiting for mail alert which were undelivered i found useful to keep watching the log, to solve path problems, or other little problems…

tail -f /var/log/zabbix/zabbix_server.log

Now this work for me!!

[lsegalla]

(please delete this post - i've put the solution in the previous post)

[olesia]

problem with sendEmail

Hello!

I have followed the steps described above #24 , but running the command, i get the following error

./zabbix_sendemail -t ***@gmail.com
Jul 08 08:45:26 ip-172-31-27-245 sendEmail[5740]: ERROR => You must specify at least one recipient via -t, -cc, or -bcc

i put the script inside alertsscripts folder mentioned in zabbix config file, made it executable

also,

root@ip-172-31-27-245:/usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts# /usr/bin/sendEmail -f $smtpemailfrom -t $zabbixemailto -u $zabbixsubject -m $zabbixbody -s $smtpserver:25 -xu $smtplogin -xp $smtppass
Jul 08 08:47:30 ip-172-31-27-245 sendEmail[5763]: WARNING => The argument after -f was not an email address!
Jul 08 08:47:30 ip-172-31-27-245 sendEmail[5763]: WARNING => The argument after -xu was not valid username!
Jul 08 08:47:30 ip-172-31-27-245 sendEmail[5763]: WARNING => The argument after -xp was not valid password!
Jul 08 08:47:30 ip-172-31-27-245 sendEmail[5763]: ERROR => You must specify a 'from' field!  Try --help.
root@ip-172-31-27-245:/usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts#

any help appreciated

regards
olesia

[MisterVertigo]

Certificate Help

I'm sorry to post in an old thread, but I'm a new Zabbix user and I'm trying to get e-mails to send via Google as well.

I'm running the VM appliance just like lsegalla, so I attempted to follow his instructions. Everything was going great, but when I try to send an e-mail with sendEmail I get the following error:

ERROR: => TLS setup failed: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed"

It appears to me that I need to install a way to verify the security certificate. I followed all the steps in the instructions by lsegalla (including the other packets he said he used).

I'm guessing it's a simple step I'm missing, but any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!