Monit alert not working using smtp

[Former user]

Hello Team,

I have configured SMTP in monitrc.

Below is my configuration

set mailserver mail.callsoft.be port 465
    username "[e-mail]" password "fdlld123#"
    using TLSV1 with timeout 30 seconds

Getting below error on monit.log

[UTC Mar 27 11:40:46] error    : Sendmail: Error receiving data from the mailserver 'mail.domain.be' -- Resource temporarily unavailable
[UTC Mar 27 11:40:46] error    : Sendmail: Error receiving data from the mailserver 'mail.domain.be' -- Resource temporarily unavailable


# monit -V
This is Monit version 5.9

[Tildeslash]

Hello,

the error seems to be because of timeout. Please try to upgrade monit ... i'm not able to reproduce the error with the current version (getting authentication error => connection works), excerpt from debug mode (-v option):

Trying to send mail via mail.callsoft.be:465
Mail: Mailserver response error -- 535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: authentication failure

[Ketan Kothari]

Hello,

I have installed monit on debian 8 (jessie) using apt-get install monit and its installed monit version 5.9

monit -V

This is Monit version 5.9 Copyright (C) 2001-2014 Tildeslash Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

Can you please tell me which version you want me to install on server ?

[Tildeslash]

Hello,

we're sorry we don't provide packages for linux distributions, you can get pre-build binaries (tar.gz archive which runs on all distributions) or compile monit from source code: https://mmonit.com/monit/#download

We recommend monit 5.25.1

[Massimo Sala]

Ketan, I am just a monit user.

On our servers I monit smtp in this way, using a little python script:

#!

check program sendmail with path "/usr/local/bin/sendmail.py --server smtp.xyz.local --to-addr=[e-mail] --subject test --dry-run"
    every "* 07-23 * * *"
    if status != 0 then alert

If you want to try, I can send you the python script in source code. It is small, easy to read and understand.

Write to massimo.sala.71 at gmail.com

Note: I am not offering consulting, but only a little help between we users (and to alleviate the monit support team).