zabbix failed to send email

[njader]

I installed zabbix on Amazon Linux. Almost everything is working as expected but when I activated email notification (SMTP) it failed. Upon checking zabbix_server.log, issue says "failed to send email: Support for SMTP authentication was not compiled in".

3464:20180319:103806.008 SNMP monitoring: YES
3464:20180319:103806.008 IPMI monitoring: YES
3464:20180319:103806.008 Web monitoring: YES
3464:20180319:103806.008 VMware monitoring: YES
3464:20180319:103806.008 SMTP authentication: NO
3464:20180319:103806.008 Jabber notifications: YES
3464:20180319:103806.008 Ez Texting notifications: YES
3464:20180319:103806.008 ODBC: YES
3464:20180319:103806.008 SSH2 support: YES
3464:20180319:103806.008 IPv6 support: YES
3464:20180319:103806.008 TLS support: YES

I installed zabbix server from distribution package with this command: sudo yum install http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/rh...el6.noarch.rpm.

How can I recompile zabbix to enable SMTP authentication?

[dimir]

You basically need to install libcurl >= 7.20 and then download source RPM (SRPM), unpack it and re-compile it.

See here: https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-13469

[njader]

yum list installed | grep curl
curl.x86_64 7.53.1-14.81.amzn1 installed
libcurl.x86_64 7.53.1-14.81.amzn1 installed
python27-pycurl.x86_64 7.19.0-17.12.amzn1 installed

rpm -qa | grep zabbix
zabbix-agent-4.0.0-1.1alpha4.el6.x86_64
zabbix-web-4.0.0-1.1alpha4.el6.noarch
zabbix-server-mysql-4.0.0-1.1alpha4.el6.x86_64
zabbix-release-3.5-1.el6.noarch
zabbix-web-mysql-4.0.0-1.1alpha4.el6.noarch

libcurl is installed.

Is it because of RPM package? Shoud I use other RPM package?

[dimir]

You have the right curl library version installed, now all you need is recompile zabbix:

As non-root user do:

$ sudo yum install rpm-build
$ wget rpm -ivh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.5/rh...a4.el6.src.rpm
$ rpm -ivh zabbix-4.0.0-1.1alpha4.el6.src.rpm
$ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
$ rpmbuild --define "alphatag alpha4" -ba zabbix.spec

If your compilation is successful you will find the new RPMs under ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64

[njader]

I recompiled zabbix and SMTP is now enabled but I have another issue. I am using amazon SES for email notification. Below is the configuration on zabbix
SMTP Server: email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
SMTP server port: 587
SMTP helo: email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
SMTP email: [email protected]
Connection security: STARTTLS
Authentication: Username and Passsword
Username: AWS SES SMTP Username
Password: AWS SES SMTP Password

Zabbix Error is: failed to send email: Failed sending data to the peer: MAIL failed: 501

Sending email from AWS SES console is working. Please advise what is wrong with my configuration.

Thank you very much.

[njader]

I ended up using gmail account for Zabbix email notification with ssmtp mailx support. It is now working but it woul be very much appreciated if anyone can help me to use amazon ses

Thank you dimir for helping me out.

[Elijah]

Hello dimir - could you please help me on fixing my issue on sending email alerts? i got this error started last 2 weeks ago. Any advise please?




here is the logs when i tried to do the manually test