E-Mail processing / code snippets & ideas

[siegmarb]

Zabbix lacks mail processing support. This is a feature request and some snippets how we work around this currently.

We use fetchmail to grab mails, extract from and subject and forward it to zabbix with zabbix_sender:

/etc/fetchmailrc

poll pop.gmail.com with proto imap user '[email protected]' with password 'secret' mda "/opt/zabbix_mailparse.sh"

/opt/zabbix_mailparse.sh

#!/bin/bash

tempfile=/tmp/zabbix_mailprocessing.eml
rm $tempfile
while read x
do 
echo $x >> $tempfile
		done
subject=$(grep -m 1 -E "^[s|S]ubject:" $tempfile | sed -E s'/(s|S)ubject: (.*)/\2/')
from=$(grep -m 1 -E "^[f|F]rom:" $tempfile | sed -E s'/(f|F)rom: (.*)/\2/')

zabbix_sender -z zabbix -s "zabbix-mailprocessor" -k mails -o "$from $subject"