[NCLUG] Net Saint?

[Charles Clarke]

If I remember correctly, Microsoft mail servers don't like the SIZE
argument.  You can check this by telneting to port 25 of your mail server
and doing the messages by hand to see which of SIZE or AUTH it doesn't
like.

charles

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Applegate,Kris wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:47:56 -0700
> From: "Applegate,Kris" <kapplegate at visgweb.com>
> Reply-To: nclug at nclug.org
> To: "Northern Colorado Linux Users Group (E-mail)" <nclug at nclug.org>
> Subject: [NCLUG] Net Saint?
> 
> Does anyone use Net Saint Monitoring? I am having some trouble with the
> notifications and could use some help.
> 
> I am having an email notification problem in 0.0.7b1. I know everything
> is configured correctly regarding the monitoring and such. However when
> I intentionally induce a server notification. NetSaint says that the
> message has been sent and that everything is kosher. Then I check the
> mailbox for NetSaint and it receives an undeliverable back from the
> target domain:
> 
> The original message was received at Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:12:55 -0700
> from netsaint at localhost
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> kapplegate at nunya.com
>     (reason: 501 5.5.4 Invalid arguments)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to nunya.com.:
> >>> MAIL From:<netsaint at linux.local> SIZE=257 AUTH=netsaint at linux.local
> <<< 501 5.5.4 Invalid arguments
> 501 5.6.0 kapplegate at nunya.com.....Data format error
> 
> I am sure that it is just a setup issue in the email script, I have not
> modified the script in anyway from the original. The line from the
> hosts.cfg is as follows:
> 
> [notify-by-email]=/bin/echo -e '***** NetSaint 0.0.7
> *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService:
> $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState:
> $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$'
> | /bin/mail -s '** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$
> is $SERVICESTATE$ **' $CONTACTEMAIL$
> 
> So I know that the contact is setup correct and that NS is sending the
> messages, just not in a format the receiving server can understand.
> Also, I have tested sending a standard message from pine to the target
> address and it works great. The setup is as follows:
> 
> Redhat 7.0
> NS 0.0.7b1
> Plugins 1.2.9-1
> Sendmail in the default config
> 
> Target Email server:
> M$ Exchange 2000
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Kristopher Applegate
> 
> 


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