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Good Day!!

I have a question.

When I try to use sendEmail, it says the Email was sent successfully! but when I run mailq, it says the emails are frozen. i have tried changing emails and email server but no luck. where could the problem lie?
any help would be appreciated. thanks!

BR
R.R

"frozen" is exim speak. Is sendmail pointing to exim? Please attach your /etc/exim/exim.conf (it might be in a different location depending on your OS...which are you running?).

Also, please attach your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

Also, what version of Core are you running? Are you able to send an email outside of Nagios?

Thanks for the reply!!

No I cannot send emails, even though it says email was sent successfully, it shows frozen when I run mailq

I found an exim4.conf.template, is that the same as the exim.conf?

I cannot find the sendmail file

I use Nagios Core 3.5.1 with NEMS in a Raspberry Pi.

Attached is the conf file

Can you show us the full output from mailq? Generally these are bouncebacks of some sort or invalid emails, so looking into the messages outputted may provide the headers showing us what's happening. Can you also post a couple of the headers for us to review?

This article may help - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1716 ... out-sender

Thanks for the reply!!

here are the frozen emails:
26h 1.7K 1ceHSH-00071k-Dp <> *** frozen ***
smtp-gspfalzfeld@xxxxx.xx

25h 1.7K 1ceIHL-0001u9-Ci <> *** frozen ***
smtp-gspfalzfeld@xxxxx.xx

25h 1.7K 1ceIRa-0001zi-Eo <> *** frozen ***
smtp-gspfalzfeld@xxxxx.xx

25h 1.7K 1ceIRy-000219-Tv <> *** frozen ***
smtp-gspfalzfeld@xxxxx.xx

24h 1.7K 1ceIne-0002DK-CP <> *** frozen ***
smtp-gspfalzfeld@xxxxx.xx

24h 1.7K 1ceInl-0002DW-5e <> *** frozen ***
smtp-gspfalzfeld@xxxxx.xx

24h 1.7K 1ceIr6-0002HH-Ea <> *** frozen ***
smtp-gspfalzfeld@xxxxx.xx


Somehow I received a notification when i used gmail as smtp server, but when I use another smtp server I receive the error below:

if I use /usr/bin/sendEmail i get this error:

Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/share/perl5/IO/Socket/SSL.pm line 562, <GEN0> line 11.
Feb 17 08:49:09 nems sendEmail[20262]: ERROR => TLS setup failed: SSL structure creation failed error:140BA0C3:SSL routines:SSL_new:null ssl ctx

when I use only sendEmail I get this error:

Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/share/perl5/IO/Socket/SSL.pm line 562, <GEN0> line 11.
Feb 17 10:06:57 nems sendEmail[22689]: ERROR => TLS setup failed: SSL structure creation failed error:140BA0C3:SSL routines:SSL_new:null ssl ctx



Best regards,
RR

Agent007 wrote:
Somehow I received a notification when i used gmail as smtp server, but when I use another smtp server I receive the error below:

This suggests you need to speak with the admin of the non-gmail smtp server to get the proper SSL settings. I'm not sure where the best place for this sort of email question is, maybe https://unix.stackexchange.com/ ? I'm not saying we can't help, but strictly speaking this does not appear to be a Nagios issue and thus we're probably just not the best place.

That said, looking at various bug reports related to your error message it's possible you need to update IO::Socket::SSL, but I don't know what OS you are running, so not sure what command to give you to check if it's installed via repo or cpan. You should figure that out to save yourself some pain down the road. If you type in cpan and you get a notice that says it needs to be installed or that it requires configuration, that's a good sign it is installed via repo.

Also, for clarity, NEMS is not something we built. It only recently came to our attention, so we've done no testing with it. The output of cat /etc/*lease should tell us the OS, which will help us help you.

Thanks for the response!

yeah I will talk to the admin of the other smtp server and tell him about the SSL problem

the OS is Debian 8 (jessie) that runs in a raspberry pi.

below is the output of the cat /etc/*lease:
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"


Thanks again!

Best regards,
RR

Looks like libio-socket-ssl-perl is the package on Debian and the latest version is 2.002-2+deb8u2, but like I said, make sure you stick with either cpan or the apt repo.

To be clear, I don't think there is necessarily something wrong with the stmp server. I think you just don't have the right settings. I could be wrong about that though.

here are the frozen emails:
26h 1.7K 1ceHSH-00071k-Dp <> *** frozen ***
smtp-gspfalzfeld@xxxxx.xx

25h 1.7K 1ceIHL-0001u9-Ci <> *** frozen ***
smtp-gspfalzfeld@xxxxx.xx

25h 1.7K 1ceIRa-0001zi-Eo <> *** frozen ***
smtp-gspfalzfeld@xxxxx.xx

25h 1.7K 1ceIRy-000219-Tv <> *** frozen ***
smtp-gspfalzfeld@xxxxx.xx

24h 1.7K 1ceIne-0002DK-CP <> *** frozen ***
smtp-gspfalzfeld@xxxxx.xx

24h 1.7K 1ceInl-0002DW-5e <> *** frozen ***
smtp-gspfalzfeld@xxxxx.xx

24h 1.7K 1ceIr6-0002HH-Ea <> *** frozen ***
smtp-gspfalzfeld@xxxxx.xx

What's is the contents of these? Are they bounced emails by chance?

@Agent007, are you still experiencing this issue?