FreeNAS email alert

[augeaz]

Hello everyone

I am a new user of FreeNAS I build recently for my small business.

I was following the user guide and many posts found online and it is up and running.

The only thing it seems I cannot grasp would be email notifications.

"FreeNAS® provides an Alert icon in the upper right corner to provide a visual indication of events that warrant administrative attention. The alert system automatically emails the root user account whenever an alert is issued. FreeNAS® also sends a daily email to the root user which should be read in order to determine the overall health of the system."

It's been a few nights now and the FreeNAS box does not seem to want to contact me.

These are the steps I found and took so far:

1. http://scr.hu/1rd/0742i
network settings checked
2. http://scr.hu/1rd/it4x0
root email set

3. http://scr.hu/1rd/pherq
email settings checked

4. http://scr.hu/1rd/basml
test email sent successfully

5. http://scr.hu/1rd/5dx76
test email received

6. on top of all of that to my limited knowledge I was trying to find a cron job responsible for the task, I went through messages and other logs

Could you point me please into the right direction?

Regards
Marcin

 

[Dusan]

periodic (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=periodic) is sending the daily mails, you should see this line in /etc/crontab

Code:

1      3      *      *      *      root    periodic daily

Running periodic daily from CLI will also send the email.
Did you check your spam folder?

 

[augeaz]

Dusan thank you for a prompt respond

http://scr.hu/1rd/4j2ef

it looks like periodic is set but running it does not send an email

spam box checked as well

I will investigate further periodic

 

[augeaz]

mailer seems to work

http://scr.hu/1rd/olhsg

and it goes to the inbox as below

http://scr.hu/1rd/793pp

it is beyond my skills clearly

thanks

 

[augeaz]

i will need some help from a mail/periodic guru here

cannot find a reason why these mails never reach the destination

help greatly appreciated

marcin

 

[Dusan]

OK, let's try to figure this out. I see you already tested mail root@<snip>.com. However, periodic actually calls mail root. So try to send an e-mail using mail root. It should use /etc/aliases to resolve root's email address.

 

[augeaz]

hello again Dusan

it seems the alias for root is set
http://scr.hu/1rd/7y4b1
although mail root does not deliver the mail
http://scr.hu/1rd/xwosv
and mail log does not tell anything useful
http://scr.hu/1rd/zgwwh

marcin

 

[augeaz]

to avoid any misspelling

changed root email to my private augeaz@gmail.com

and did some tests
http://scr.hu/1rd/34fa1
unfortunately only one mail got its way to the destination
http://scr.hu/1rd/2u5dv

marcin

 

[augeaz]

going further

command sendmail did deliver the mail
http://scr.hu/1rd/sco2l
http://scr.hu/1rd/0clod

marcin

 

[Dusan]

Can you also check /etc/mail/aliases?

 

[augeaz]

it is updated correctly in there as well
http://scr.hu/1rd/i0c27

 

[Dusan]

Does sendmail augeaz@gmail.com work? I'm asking because mail is using sendmail to send mail. sendmail is actually this script: /etc/find_alias_for_smtplib.py. The script can do the alias expansion, however mail does it too, so I think when periodic sends a mail sendmail gets already called with the final address.

 

[augeaz]

ok, to summarise

alias root: augeaz@gmai.com is set in /etc/aliases and /etc/mail/aliases

mail augeaz@gmail.com WORKS
mail root DOES NOT WORK
sendmail augeaz@gmail.com WORKS
sendmail root WORKS

can i find any logs which will tell more what happens after `mail root` ?

 

[augeaz]

sorry

alias root: augeaz@gmail.com is set in /etc/aliases and /etc/mail/aliases

 

[Dusan]

You can run mail -d root to get some debugging output (note: it will not send any mail when running in debug mode, it will just print the debug output).
In my case I get:
[PANEL]user = root, homedir = /root
Subject: test
test
EOT
Sendmail arguments: "send-mail" "-i" "root"[/PANEL]

 

[augeaz]

does it help?
http://scr.hu/1rd/dqjjd

 

[Dusan]

You get exactly the same output I see (I updated my post above).

 

[augeaz]

unfortunately for me our similarity ends here

i cannot find anyone with a similar problem out there searching through google

 

[Dusan]

What FreeNAS version are you using? (cat /etc/version)

 

[augeaz]

9.1.1 - it is a fresh box

http://scr.hu/1rd/b2rcz