I am trying to get email alerts from VCSA 6 working – to no avail. I am hoping someone here knows the solution?
<rant>I have opened a case with VMware support, but in most every aspect, the support representatives seem to know less about the VCSA than I do! Moreover, some of the KB articles they have suggested have blatant and obvious mistakes! Take for example VMware KB: Emails sent from VMware vCenter Server Appliance are rejected , the sendmail.mc file is mis-represented and not valid in the format VMware presents it! It is missing quotes FEATURE(genericstable)dnl which render the remainder of the file invalid!</rant>
Does anyone have an idea what’s going on, or have email successfully configured on VCSA?
I have the following situation: VCSA 6 with open-relay SMTP (no authentication, any email address from my IP). On the VCSA 6, all /var/log/mail* log files are empty.
I have tested port connectivity to smtp-relay.gmail.com with : curl -v telnet://target ip address:desired port number (VMware KB: Using Curl to test port connectivity in VMware vCenter Server Appliance)
Here is the redacted transcript of a failed email from: /var/mail/root
From MAILER-DAEMON@vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com Sat Mar 19 07:42:09 2016
Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON@vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com>
Received: from localhost (localhost)
by vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) id u2J7cxis029065;
Sat, 19 Mar 2016 07:42:09 GMT
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 07:42:09 GMT
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com>
Message-Id: <201603190742.u2J7cxis123465@vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com>
To: Postmaster@vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
boundary=”u2J7cxis029065.1412343329/vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com”
Subject: Postmaster notify: see transcript for details
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (postmaster-notification)
This is a MIME-encapsulated message
–u2J7cxis029065.1458373329/vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com
The original message was received at Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:15:15 GMT
from localhost [127.0.0.1]
—– The following addresses had permanent fatal errors —–
—– Transcript of session follows —–
<notification@tld.com>… Deferred: Connection timed out with gmail-smtp-relay.l.google.com.
Message could not be delivered for 5 days
Message will be deleted from queue
–u2J7cxis029065.1234373329/vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com
Content-Type: message/delivery-status
Reporting-MTA: dns; vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com
Arrival-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:15:15 GMT
Final-Recipient: RFC822; notification@tld.com
Action: failed
Status: 4.4.7
Remote-MTA: DNS; gmail-smtp-relay.l.google.com
Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 07:42:09 GMT
–u2J7cxis029065.1234373329/vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com
Content-Type: text/rfc822-headers
Return-Path: <root@vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com>
Received: from vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id u2E7FFiq025735
for <notification@tld.com>; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:15:15 GMT
Received: (from root@localhost)
by vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id u2E7FEJ7025730;
Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:15:15 GMT
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:15:15 GMT
Message-Id: <201603140715.1234FEJ7025730@vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com>
To: notification@tld.com;
From: admin@tld.com
Subject: [VMware vCenter – Alarm alarm.DatastoreDiskUsageAlarm] alarm.DatastoreDiskUsageAlarm changed status from Yellow to Red
Content-type: text/plain
Target: mydomain009-vol002
–u2J7cxis029065.1234373329/vcsa1.mydomain.tld.com–