Solved Zabbix - email alerts
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The bug is if the user you are trying to send has the permission level of Zabbix Admin instead of a Zabbix Super Admin they don't really get added to the Zabbix Admins group or something like that. It doesn't make sense. I read this article:
https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?p=126105#post126105
and then changed the user account that was supposed to get the emails to a Super Zabbix Admin and the messages started pouring in.
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@Mike-Davis that's a huge pain! Why haven't they fixed that already?
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Might give this a try when I re-build Zabbix in April/May
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I realize this topic is aging out, but can we get a screen shot of what the localhost config should look like in Zabbix to get it all buttoned up?
I'm stuggling with the same issues, but I don't have info on what to put in all the other fields to make this work using the local postfix server.
I don't want to create a whole seperate email just to set up email alerts if postfix is already running.
Thanks
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@cronsloth Do you mean the config page under Administration -> Media Types -> email?
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@mike-davis said in Zabbix - email alerts:
under Administration -> Media Types -> email
that's the one! Email alerts aren't working for me either, and I found this thread.. Unfortunately haven't been able to get it going yet, nothing shows in the logs /var/log/maillog yet either, so it is probably something easy I am missing.
Happy to start a new thread if needs be
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@cronsloth said in Zabbix - email alerts:
@mike-davis said in Zabbix - email alerts:
under Administration -> Media Types -> email
that's the one! Email alerts aren't working for me either, and I found this thread.. Unfortunately haven't been able to get it going yet, nothing shows in the logs /var/log/maillog yet either, so it is probably something easy I am missing.
Happy to start a new thread if needs be
Does the mail command work on its own?
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yes the mail command by itself works fine and shows up in logs.
[root@zabbixv3 ~]# echo "test message" | mail -s "test email for postfix" [email protected]
[root@zabbixv3 ~]# cat /var/log/maillogOct 5 12:56:58 zabbixv3 postfix/qmgr[1292]: 446341013197: from=[email protected], size=475, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 5 12:56:58 zabbixv3 postfix/smtp[14102]: connect to aspmx.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400e:c01::1b]:25: Network is unreachable
Oct 5 12:56:59 zabbixv3 postfix/smtp[14102]: 446341013197: to=[email protected], relay=aspmx.l.google.com[74.125.28.26]:25, delay=1, delays=0.03/0.02/0.75/0.22, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1507233418 k91si4311249pld.78 - gsmtp)
Oct 5 12:56:59 zabbixv3 postfix/qmgr[1292]: 446341013197: removed -
Network is unreachable?
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i saw that too, but it sends after. maybe something to do with the domain IP being an ipv6 address? The next line it connects successfully using an ipv4 address. I definitely received an email from this test.
Further info: I did make sure that my user i'm logged in as and sending to are both 'super zabbix admins'
What settings should be populated in 'SMTP: helo' and 'SMTP: email' ?
I assume I don't have to use a real email address (like yahoo, gmail, o365, etc) for the smtp email (since the 'mail' command successfully sends as 'zabbixv3@localdomain' ).My Settings (with my domain swapped out for 'mydomain.tv')
**[email protected] isn't a real email outside of this configSMTP Server : localhost
SMTP Server Port: 25
SMTP helo: mydomain.tv
SMTP email: Zabbix-Alerts <[email protected]>
connection Security: None
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@cronsloth Your helo could be zabbix.mydomain.tv but otherwise, that's how your config should look. I built a newer zabbix server than the one where I had the issues above. To get the newer one to work, the only thing I had to do was edit my SPF record in DNS ( it's a txt record) to add my Zabbix server as an authorized sender for my domain.
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Thanks so much for you quick responses... knowing I got those settings dialed in allowed my brain to stop focusing on them and look elsewhere.
After reading some more documentation... there is an added step that I didn't realize I had to do. I must have missed it before because I was too focused on SMTP settings...
Administration > User Groups > Permissions --- by default 'All Groups' was set to 'None' instead of 'Read-Write' which means any user in that group wasn't allowed to read host data. Why that is a default config idk...
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.2/manual/config/notifications/action/operation/message
Thanks for you help, I changed that setting and boom! Emails came through. #bestforumsEver.
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@cronsloth Woot
