Can't send events by email

[zumbarotinus]

Hello!

I have a working 1.24.2 zoneminder setup on a debian machine. And I have setup postfix to relay emails via gmail, which is working fine via command line, e.g. mails -s "Test" ...

However, I can't get zoneminder to send me event details via email. My options configuration are like the following:

Name
OPT_EMAIL yes
EMAIL_ADDRESS myemail@gmail.com
EMAIL_SUBJECT ZoneMinder: Alarm
EMAIL_BODY Hello, An alarm has been detected on your installation of the ZoneMinder.
OPT_MESSAGE no
MESSAGE_ADDRESS
MESSAGE_SUBJECT
MESSAGE_BODY
NEW_MAIL_MODULES no
EMAIL_HOST localhost
FROM_EMAIL mysendingmail@gmail.com
URL

Syslog tells me this, anytime I hit the "Execute" button on a filter so that an email should be sent.

zoneminder-debian zmfilter[1948]: INF [Scanning for events using filter '_TempFilter1326129225']

I'm not sure how to proceed. Am I missing something on my setup?

Thanks for your attention!

Regards,

Zumba

[PacoLM]

A part of configuring the email, you should create a filter that has checked the send mail option. Do you have it?

[zumbarotinus]

Thanks for the reply, PacoLM.

Actually I do, and when I hit the submit button I get some events that match the filter criteria.

Do you know of a way to troubleshoot zoneminder's email sending capability more directly? Without the need to create a filter that has matching events so that I can get an email to be sent.

Regards,

Zumba

[PacoLM]

Hi,

I'm also using postfix as mailer and works fine. I'll post the settings I have so you could compare them with yours.

PacoLM

[zumbarotinus]

Thanks, PacoLM!

I'd appreciate that!

Zumba

[PacoLM]

/etc/postfix/main.cf

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# See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version
# Debian specific:  Specifying a file name will cause the first
# line of that file to be used as the name.  The Debian default
# is /etc/mailname.
#myorigin = /etc/mailname
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU)
biff = no
# appending .domain is the MUA's job.
append_dot_mydomain = no
# Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings
#delay_warning_time = 4h
readme_directory = no
# TLS parameters
smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtpd_use_tls=yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache
# See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for
# information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.
myhostname = guruplug-ssd
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
mydestination = guruplug-ssd, localhost.localdomain, , localhost
relayhost = 
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = all

Options:

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OPT_EMAIL yes
EMAIL_ADDRESS myemail@gmail.com
EMAIL_SUBJECT ZoneMinder: Alarm
EMAIL_BODY Hello, An alarm has been detected on your installation of the ZoneMinder.
OPT_MESSAGE no
MESSAGE_ADDRESS
MESSAGE_SUBJECT
MESSAGE_BODY
NEW_MAIL_MODULES no
EMAIL_HOST localhost
FROM_EMAIL mysendingmail@gmail.com
URL mypublicIPaddress.dnsserver.com

I installed postfix as internet, if I recall correctly.

Hope it helps,
PacoLM

[zumbarotinus]

Thanks, PacoLM!

I think the behavior I'm having is not related to postfix configs, because I can send email using the command line, like: mail -s "Subject" etc.

Regardless, I'll try out your main.cf extract.

It seems to me that I'm missing some zoneminder configuration. Would it be possible for you to check how zoneminder manifests itself on syslog, when it succeeds in sending an email?

Cheers!

Zumba

[PacoLM]

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Jan 11 06:31:18 guruplug-ssd zma_m1[1721]: INF [Frontal: 369248 - Gone into alarm state]
Jan 11 06:31:18 guruplug-ssd zma_m1[1721]: INF [Frontal: 369248 - Opening new event 15600, alarm start]
Jan 11 06:31:23 guruplug-ssd zma_m1[1721]: INF [Frontal: 369273 - Gone into alert state]
Jan 11 06:31:29 guruplug-ssd zma_m1[1721]: INF [Frontal: 369283 - Left alarm state (15600) - 45(25) images]
Jan 11 06:31:29 guruplug-ssd zma_m1[1721]: INF [Frontal: 369283 - Closing event 15600, alarm end]
Jan 11 06:32:14 guruplug-ssd zmvideo[18762]: INF [Creating video file Frontal-15600-r1-s1.avi for event 15600]
Jan 11 06:32:16 guruplug-ssd zmvideo[18762]: INF [Finished Frontal-15600-r1-s1.avi]
Jan 11 06:32:16 guruplug-ssd zmfilter[1816]: INF [Creating notification email]
Jan 11 06:32:18 guruplug-ssd zmfilter[1816]: INF [Sending notification email '2012-01-11 06:31:11 - 15600 -> Frontal']
Jan 11 06:32:18 guruplug-ssd zmfilter[1816]: INF [Attaching '/usr/share/zoneminder/events/1/12/01/11/06/31/11/00011-capture.jpg]
Jan 11 06:32:18 guruplug-ssd zmfilter[1816]: INF [Attaching '/usr/share/zoneminder/events/1/12/01/11/06/31/11/00019-capture.jpg]
Jan 11 06:32:18 guruplug-ssd zmfilter[1816]: INF [Attaching '/usr/share/zoneminder/events/1/12/01/11/06/31/11/Frontal-15600-r1-s1.avi]
Jan 11 06:32:18 guruplug-ssd postfix/smtpd[18766]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Jan 11 06:32:18 guruplug-ssd postfix/smtpd[18766]: 8419212529A: client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
Jan 11 06:32:18 guruplug-ssd postfix/cleanup[18769]: 8419212529A: message-id=<20120111053218.8419212529A@guruplug-ssd>
Jan 11 06:32:18 guruplug-ssd postfix/qmgr[1645]: 8419212529A: from=<zm@myguruplug.com>, size=124990, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 11 06:32:18 guruplug-ssd postfix/smtpd[18766]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Jan 11 06:32:18 guruplug-ssd zmfilter[1816]: INF [Notification email sent]
Jan 11 06:32:22 guruplug-ssd postfix/smtp[18771]: 8419212529A: to=<XXXXXXX@gmail.com>, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.229.27]:25, delay=3.6, delays=0.43/0.07/0.75/2.4, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1326259942 fx2si108321wbb.65)
Jan 11 06:32:22 guruplug-ssd postfix/qmgr[1645]: 8419212529A: removed

[PacoLM]

Edit: Duplicated post.

[zumbarotinus]

Thank you so much, PacoLM!

I'll have a look at my setup when I get home today.

[zumbarotinus]

It turned out that postfix's main.cf wasn't the problem, after all.

I got zm to send me alarm emails, whenever I force an alarm on the monitor screen.

The thing I'm not getting to work are filters that send me emails. On the same setup I execute a filter like this one



and no email is sent. Am I missing something?

Thanks!

Zumba

[PacoLM]

Could you post the log after execute the filter?. Maybe the problem is in the zmfilter execution, not the mailer system.

Also check these values in Options::System ->
FILTER_RELOAD_DELAY 300
FILTER_EXECUTE_INTERVAL 130

[zumbarotinus]

I'll do that today when I get home, Paco.

Thanks!