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I want to set up an email notification whenever a new event occurs, but I've found the documentation for filters to be very confusing. Can someone post a simple tutorial (either here or in another post and link to it here) on how to set up a filter and an email notification whenever a new event is registered?

Okay, so I think I figured out why the simple email settings aren't working on my ZoneMinder installation. I went to the logs and found this:
I noticed in zmfilter.pl, that there were more debug lines that would signal that the email had sent properly but were not being so I added some code to get more detailed output and got the following:
Any ideas on how to fix this?

Do you have postfix installed?

Installing postfix doesn't help, have tried that. Zoneminder has it's own smtp server installed in the ubuntu package. I've confirmed this via telnet. Even if you install postfix, Zoneminder's smtp server has control over port 25.

Then, remove this package and use postfix...

Did a fresh install of Zoneminder, postfix and still couldn't get it working. Re-imaged the system and started from scratch one more time because I couldn't be believe that installing postfix wouldn't resolve my issue. The re-image worked and I'm still dumbfounded as to what I had done to the previous image to break Zoneminder's ability to use postfix. Thanks for your replies.

Hey I have some script that checks for motion events. Here's a version I use but I had to base my auth on something more specific to my needs).
I had to install sendmail and fuss with the /etc/mail/submit.mc:
define(`SMART_HOST', `myisp.smtpserver.com')dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(`mydns.dyndns.org')dnl

which added the following entries to the submit.cf after a make:

DSmyisp.smtpserver.com
DMmydns.dyndns.org

Note that you dont need sendmail running at all if you are only outbounding messages.
Seems to send about 20-30 seconds after an event starts.

#!/bin/bash
# watchcam script v1.0 - Author koolb@hotmail.com
# Copyright Dec 2011
#
# repeatedly watches zmu -l for changes in state for the monitors:
# Id Func State TrgState LastImgTim RdIdx WrIdx LastEvt FrmRate
# 1 3 0 0 1324176081.57 65 65 15505 4.25
# 3 3 0 0 1324176081.65 57 57 15416 5.05
# 4 3 0 0 1324176081.73 1 1 15506 4.30

export APP="Cam Watch"
export RCPT="myemail@hotmail.com"
sbmail()
{
subj=$1
body="${2-$(date)}"
echo -e "$body\n\n" | mail -s "$APP: $subj" $RCPT
}
sbmail Starting
trap "sbmail Ending" HUP ABRT TERM QUIT EXIT
while sudo zmu -l -A $(cat /mysecret/auth)
do usleep 80000
done | perl -ne 'sub smail {
my ($subj, $body, $le) = @_;
my $bodyfn="/tmp/ca.$$";
my $loc = sprintf("$httpfmt\n\n\n", $le);
open(BODY, ">$bodyfn") || die "Cant open email file $bodyfn: $!";
print BODY "$body\n$loc";
close(BODY);
system("mail -s \"$subj\" " . $ENV{"RCPT"} ." < $bodyfn");
print "\n$subj";
}
BEGIN {
@monLE = (0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
@monSt = (0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
$httpfmt=$ENV{"MYZMURI"} . "/index.php?view=event&eid=%d";
}{
($id, $fn, $st, $trig, $lastImgDt, $ri, $wi, $le, $rt) = split;
next if $id == 0;

smail("Monitor $id: Event $le Started at " . localtime,
"$changed from " . $monLE[$id] . " @ " . localtime() ."\n", $le)
if $monLE[$id] ne $le && $st > 0;

smail("Monitor $id: Event $le Ended at " . localtime, "Ended", $le)
if $monSt[$id] ne $st && $st == 0;

$monSt[$id] = $st;
$monLE[$id] = $le;
}'