Sending a notification through Gmail SMTP server

[dvoracekp]

Is there any way how to send notifications through Google's SMTP server?

Thank you,
Peter

[untergeek]

That's a good question. I presume you'd set it up like any other SMTP mail setup, but with the appropriate GMAIL account information.

[dvoracekp]

Yes, but I do not want to install an SMTP server just for zabbix.

[untergeek]

You misunderstand me, I think.

Administration -> Media types

Email Email SMTP server: "localhost", SMTP helo: "example.com", SMTP email: "[email protected]"

Couldn't you change these values to point to the Gmail SMTP server?

[dvoracekp]

No, this does not work. Google's SMTP server requires authentication, SSL and port 465 or 587.

Look here:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=cs&answer=13287

[untergeek]

You will either have to create a "forwarding" SMTP server then, which forwards to gmail, or a script (media type) which parses the data you send, then emails it via gmail.

[dvoracekp]

And so I just to avoid this :-(

[JBo]

Hi,

And so I just to avoid this :-(

As untergeek said, there are only 2 solutions: set a forwarding SMTP server or use a custom media type.
If you want to use a custom media type, I have described how to use a Gmail account here.

Hope this helps,
JBo

[untergeek]

JBo,

That is excellent! We may need to use something like that in the future, so thank you for the link!

[alledm]

See the answer I gave to a similar problem here

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10615847&postcount=11

all you need to do is to use stunnel as a client for the GMail server.

example conf file:

Code:
; Use it for client mode

client = yes

; Service-level configuration

[ssmtp]
accept  = 25
connect = smtp.gmail.com:465

once properly configured, just set zabbix to send an email to your port 25

[fallwor]

JBo,

I tried your method. I'm facing the following problem:
When Zabbix executes the script I get the following error in zabbix-server.log:

/etc/zabbix/alert.d/zext_msmtp.sh: line 72: msmtp: command not found
sed: couldn't flush stdout: Broken pipe

When I execute the following code a mail sends to my e-mail address without issues.

sed 's/$/\r/' <<EOF | msmtp --account zabbix [email protected]
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
EOF

The chmod of zext_msmtp.sh is 777.
What do I do wrong?

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I also had to remove the tls support. doesn't find the key. There probably isn't any.

[JBo]

Hi,

From your logs:

/etc/zabbix/alert.d/zext_msmtp.sh: line 72: msmtp: command not found

Have you installed msmtp utility ?
Regards,
JBo

[fallwor]

JBo,

Thanks fopr your quick reply.
Yeah, I installed msmtp from source. I'm using centos.
It works. I ran the command sed .... msmtp --account .... from command line and I receive the e-mail in my inbox.
the only issue is the script that makes sed not recognise msmtp ...

[JBo]

msmtp: command not found

means that the script cannot find msmtp command.
It is just a PATH problem.
If you have installed it from source, have you put it in one of the standard directories ?
On my server, I have:

# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

and msmtp is in /usr/bin

[fallwor]

I have this:

>echo $PATH
/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

>whereis msmtp
msmtp: /usr/local/bin/msmtp

Besides I tried this:

./zext_msmtp.sh e-mail test01 this is a message

I got the message which means something must go wrong in zabbix.