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Posted: **Tue Apr 30, 2019 11:08 am**

Hello,

NagiosXI 5.6 on CentOs 7.1 PHP 5.46

I am trying to configure inbound email under System Config-Email Settings. I put all values in (verified that nae and password work in browser), but when I click "Test Settings" I am getting

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Could not connect with the inbound settings given. Hide Details
Can't open mailbox {xxx.xxx.com:/imap}INBOX: invalid remote specification

Searching indicate possible problem with IMAP being enabled in PHP configuration.

I checked /etc/php.ini and did not find any mentioning of extensions. I do see imap.so and yum idicates that imap-php is installed.

Question:
How do I make inbound email work?

Thanks.

Posted: **Tue Apr 30, 2019 3:01 pm**

Hello, @stf_792. Can you run this command from the nagios server console and let me know if it fails or not?

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_email_delivery --mailto xxxxxxx --mailfrom xxxxxxx -H xx.xxx.xxx.xxx --smtp-server xx.xxx.xxx.xxx --smtp-username 'xxxxxxx' --smtp-password 'xxxxxxx ' --smtp-port 25 --imap-server xx.xxx.xxx.xxx --imap-username 'xxxxxxx' ---imap-password 'xxxxxxx ' --imap-port 143

Don't forget to replace all xxxx with the actual information.

Please upload: /var/log/maillog from the nagios server.

Posted: **Tue Apr 30, 2019 3:11 pm**

The above post will check your connection settings, however I do believe that it's connecting properly. What email provider are you using and does the user that you are connecting with have a folder/mailbox called INBOX available? We don't do any polling for mailboxes, we currently only have it set up to use the INBOX mailbox and if one does not exist it will error. You should be able to create it if it doesn't exist though.

Posted: **Tue Apr 30, 2019 4:21 pm**

we are using our on-prem exchange server.

Sending is working fine, we can use 3rd party IMAP client to connect to mailbox.

please note that we trying to configure nagios xi 5.6 feature "acknowledge by email" by configuring inbound mail settings. php IMAP extension need to be enabled for that.

I do not think check_email_delivery applies in this case.

see screenshot

Posted: **Wed May 01, 2019 10:31 am**

Please go to Admin > Manage Email Settings:
- Make sure Debug Log is checked
- Click the Update Settings button

Then edit this file:

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/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/utils-email.inc.php

Change the two imap_open lines in there from this:

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$conn = imap_open($conn_string."INBOX", $user, $pass);

To this:

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$conn = imap_open($conn_string."INBOX", $user, $pass, 0, 1, array('DISABLE_AUTHENTICATOR' => 'GSSAPI'));

Then change this line (around line 350):

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$conn_string .= '/imap';

To this:

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$conn_string .= '/imap/debug';

Then run this tail command (and leave it running):

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tail -F /var/log/maillog /usr/local/nagiosxi/tmp/phpmailer.log /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/eventman.log /var/log/httpd/error_log /var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log

Then try it again and send us the full output from the screen and from the tail command above.

Thank you!

Posted: **Wed May 01, 2019 10:48 am**

here it is

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/var/log/httpd/error_log <==
[Wed May 01 10:42:43.756071 2019] [:error] [pid 5530] [client xx.xx.xx.xx:52934] PHP Warning:  imap_open(): Couldn't open stream {mycasserver.mydomain.com:/imap/debug}INBOX in /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/utils-email.inc.php on line 269, referer: http://myservername.mydomain.com/nagiosxi/admin/mailsettings.php

Posted: **Wed May 01, 2019 4:54 pm**

Edit the /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/utils-email.inc.php file again and change this back, to the original setting.

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$conn_string .= '/imap';

Save the file and edit this file

Around line 589 you should see this line

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$msg_lines_count = count($msg_lines);

Add these lines below that line

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echo "msg_end: " . $msg_end;
echo "\nmsg_lines_count: " . $msg_lines_count;
echo "\nmsg_lines: " . var_dump($msg_lines);
echo "\nmsg: " . $msg;

Save the file.

Reply to an Notification with a valid command.

Check the /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cleaner.log file for any errors when the system checks the inbound email account.

Posted: **Wed May 01, 2019 7:03 pm**

I updated to 5.61 - same error.

After taking 20th look, I relaized that IMAP port number need to be typed in, it looks like it prepopulated to 143, but it not.

After typing the port number and testing, error changed to

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SECURITY PROBLEM: insecure server advertised AUTH=PLAIN
Can not authenticate to IMAP server: AUTHENTICATE failed.

Since we only allow IMAP internally for selected mailboxes, I am not using any encryption for IMAP login. It is set to none.

I know that username and password are good - I can login to mailbox on other non-nagios applications.

I tried the following combinations for username:

domain\username
username
username@domain

Same error.

Is Nagios by default disables any plain text authentication?

Posted: **Thu May 02, 2019 9:11 am**

As I mentioned earlier, IMAP port was the 1st problem. Port Hint looks like port already entered, while it was blank

The second problem was "!" character in mailbox password. "!" used as delimiter in Nagios, so after password change it stop giving Authentication errors.

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SECURITY PROBLEM: insecure server advertised AUTH=PLAIN

message still remaining. Hopefully it will be suppressed on next build.

Posted: **Thu May 02, 2019 11:00 am**

Thanks for letting is know about the Port Hint causing issues. I put in a request to get that changed to be blank.

The message

SECURITY PROBLEM: insecure server advertised AUTH=PLAIN

May not be so easily to remove. What that I read, it is nor really an error, it is just a warning that you are using PLAIN text authentication.
You should only see that message when testing the InBox connection.

I just want to verify, after all of the changes, it is working for you now?

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