Fantastic! I will try this out tomorrow. Many, many, thanks for helping me out. I was just about to start looking through completely unchartered source files.
Bravo! -- Wantegrity Inc. Michael A Hawkins, President Stamford, CT 06902 USA Mobile: 203-550-5502 On Mon, 2025-01-20 at 04:44 +0000, Redbourne,Michael wrote: > > Hey Mike, > > The directive you're looking for (which is described in the docs - I missed > it) is just a straight template="body." > Don't put "body." in front of the conf declaration. Here's the raw C-code > though for ommail - > >https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/blob/master/plugins/ommail/ommail.c. > >Scroll down to line 120 (subject.template) > and 123 (template). 123 is the body equivalent to L120. I'm not sure why > Rainer didn't keep the variable naming > consistent there. > > > template (name="mailBody" type="string" string="RSYSLOG > Alert\\r\\nmsg='%msg%'") > template (name="mailSubjectAdmin" type="string" string="ALERT: We got an > Admin login/logoff on %hostname%") > > > if $msg contains 'logdesc="Admin' then { > action(type="ommail" server="172.16.31.15" port="25" > mailfrom="n...@wantegrity.com" > mailto=["mhawk...@wantegrity.com", "r...@saturn.home"] > subject.template="mailSubjectAdmin" > body.enable="on" > > template="mailBody" > action.execonlyonceeveryinterval="2" > action.execOnlyWhenPreviousIsSuspended="off" > ) > } > > > > > Cheers, > Mike > > > > From: Michael A Hawkins <mhawk...@wantegrity.com> > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2025 3:26 PM > To: Redbourne,Michael <michael.redbou...@bulletproofsi.com>; rsyslog-users > <rsyslog@lists.adiscon.com> > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] ommail module > > > > > CAUTION: The Sender is located Outside The Organization. Do not click links > or open attachments unless you recognize > the sender and know the content is safe. > > > Thanks Michael, > > My ommail rule works OK. There is an email body. But it only contains the > syslog message itself. Which is good that > it's > there. But the examples 1 and 2 within > https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rsyslog.com%2Fdoc%2Fconfiguration%2Fmodules%2Fommail.html&data=05%7C02%7Cmichael.redbourne%40bulletproofsi.com%7Ce2ca27b3cb1c4b2a1d0c08dd390a8db4%7C9a63d13853ea411bbe8458b7e2570747%7C1%7C0%7C638729439720876206%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=esU%2FI4Km%2BQZJAzDZ1Bhhd4rDVdHDg13P8NDyLRA2uEM%3D&reserved=0 > show definitions of > a "mailBody" template: > > template (name="mailBody" type="string" string="RSYSLOG > Alert\\r\\nmsg='%msg%'") > > But then, in the body of the those two examples message 'action' sections, > the "mailBody" template is not actually > assigned to anything (but the mailSubject template is - and the subject > template works). > > So I am wondering how to apply the "mailBody" template to the action. The > examples don't appear to have applied the > mailBody template to anything at all. > > Perhaps I should ask this question instead. Where in the rsyslog code base, > will I find the code for ommail module? So > that I can try to find the directives that are available. Because the > documentation might be incomplete on templates. > > -- > Wantegrity Inc. > Michael A Hawkins, President > Stamford, CT 06902 USA > Mobile: 203-550-5502 > > > > On Mon, 2025-01-20 at 03:48 +0000, Redbourne,Michael wrote: > > > > Hey Mike H, > > > > We (the community) and rsyslog/adiscon are getting your emails. Ommail was > > written by Adiscon (makers of rsyslog). > > It > > was specifically written by Rainer, the lead author. It's possible no one > > knows why and hasn't jumped in. Have you > > tried capturing the traffic at the rsyslog server headed towards the SMTP > > server? Eg: tcpdump -i any port 25 and > > host > > 172.16.31.15 -w /tmp/outbound-smtp.pcap > > > > If you're not seeing the email body in the packet it's possible the module > > is bugged. If you see the body of the > > email > > in the packet, it's probably not a rsyslog issue. You can also try forcibly > > setting Body.Enable = "on". > > "body.template" is not a valid directive according to the docs. > > https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rsyslog.com%2Fdoc%2Fconfiguration%2Fmodules%2Fommail.html&data=05%7C02%7Cmichael.redbourne%40bulletproofsi.com%7Ce2ca27b3cb1c4b2a1d0c08dd390a8db4%7C9a63d13853ea411bbe8458b7e2570747%7C1%7C0%7C638729439720892590%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vh3dgfqHFDL2au52JYImhkZJ4yjn4A9nPJd%2BELJo2f4%3D&reserved=0 > > > > > > > > > > if $msg contains 'logdesc="Admin' then { > > action(type="ommail" server="172.16.31.15" port="25" > > mailfrom="n...@wantegrity.com" > > mailto=["mhawk...@wantegrity.com", "r...@saturn.home"] > > subject.template="mailSubjectAdmin" > > body.enable="on" > > action.execonlyonceeveryinterval="2" > > action.execOnlyWhenPreviousIsSuspended="off" > > ) > > } > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: rsyslog <rsyslog-boun...@lists.adiscon.com> on behalf of Michael A > > Hawkins via rsyslog > > <rsyslog@lists.adiscon.com> > > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2025 1:40 PM > > To: rsyslog-users <rsyslog@lists.adiscon.com> > > Cc: Michael A Hawkins <mhawk...@wantegrity.com> > > Subject: [rsyslog] ommail module > > > > > > > > > > CAUTION: The Sender is located Outside The Organization. Do not click links > > or open attachments unless you recognize > > the sender and know the content is safe. > > > > > > Perhaps someone could point out to me why I am not getting any response > > from anyone. I guess this is my last time > > asking. Perhaps I am on the wrong email group? Is ommail something that is > > supported by the rsyslog team directly? > > Or > > is > > it managed by someone else? > > > > Hello to everyone, > > > > I have the following ommail conf file and it is working except that the > > mailBody template is not applied to outgoing > > emails. I searched the documentation and searched the Internet looking for > > a way to apply a mailBody template to the > > body of the email but found nothing. You can see I tried body.template but > > that didn't work. Does anyone have any > > suggestions? > > > > template (name="mailBody" type="string" string="RSYSLOG > > Alert\\r\\nmsg='%msg%'") > > template (name="mailSubjectAdmin" type="string" string="ALERT: We got an > > Admin login/logoff on %hostname%") > > > > if $msg contains 'logdesc="Admin' then { > > action(type="ommail" server="172.16.31.15" port="25" > > mailfrom="n...@wantegrity.com" > > mailto=["mhawk...@wantegrity.com", "r...@saturn.home"] > > subject.template="mailSubjectAdmin" > > # body.template="mailBody" <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< this does not work (when > > uncommented) > > action.execonlyonceeveryinterval="2" > > action.execOnlyWhenPreviousIsSuspended="off" > > ) > > } > > > > /Mike H > > > > -- > > Wantegrity Inc. > > Michael A Hawkins, President > > Stamford, CT 06902 USA > > Mobile: 203-550-5502 > > > > > > > > On Sat, 2025-01-11 at 09:12 -0500, Michael A Hawkins via rsyslog wrote: > > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > I have the following conf file and it is working except that the mailBody > > > template is not applied to outgoing > > > emails. > > > I searched the documentation and searched the Internet looking for a way > > > to apply the mailBody template to the > > > body > > > of > > > the email but found nothing. You can see I tried body.template but that > > > didn't work. 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