Re: {bb} BB e-mail notification - bbwarnrules.cfg

["Stephen L. Johnson" <sjohnson@godzilla.monsters.org>]

> Jerry Shenk wrote:
> > 
> > I'm having trouble getting notification going to different e-mail addresses
> > working correctly.  Here I have an example that I thought would have sent a
> > message to 3 users every hour after a site has been down for 10 minutes.
> > This line doesn't seem to work.  The only user to get a message was the last
> > one on the list.
> > 
> > *;omnipoint* redrose* *WS;*;msgs;*;0600-1800; dshelly@[10.94.1.253]:~10-60
> > jmiller@[10.94.1.253]:~10-60 jas@dect.com:~10-60
> > 
> > I then changed the users to:
> > dshelly@[10.94.1.253],jmiller@[10.94.1.253],jas@dect.com:~10-60
> > but I'm not sure that's working either.  What should this be?  I've fooled
> > with this time and time and I keep having problems sending notifications to
> > multiple users.
> 
> Hum, my belief is that the user@[IPaddr] should be user@IPaddr.  The
> last on
> is that way and it is receiving notifications.  I think the GREP/EGREP
> are
> getting confused because of the [...].

That is not correct. If you are sending e-mail using an IP-address you have to [....] around it. This sets it off from being a domain name.

Mail Transfers Agents (i.e. sendmail) tries to lookup an MX host, and it tries to get the canonical of name of the domain. And then it attempts to delivery the message to the canonical host name that was found. The "[ IP-address ]" short circuits that process, so the mail delivery will be made directly the the IP address specified.

Stephen L Johnson
<sjohnson@monsters.org>


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