Further info on the mailq stuff.
I went to /var/spool/dma/ and read the contents of some of the files there.
Basically they are related to a problem with arpwatch and nothing to do with
suricata-reporter.
I will need to separately try and figure out what is happening to cause those.
There are 13 entries in the dma directory, all with the same date/time and I
checked three different entries and they were all related to arpwatch.
Regards,
Adolf.
On 29/09/2025 18:37, Adolf Belka wrote:
Without any new alerts being triggered by the IPS the dma logs showed more of
those messages about error creating mbox root.
I then triggered some more alerts in IPS and no new dma messages were seen.
I also checked the mailq output before and after triggering the alerts and
there were no additional entries compared to previously.
Regards,
Adolf.
On 29/09/2025 18:10, Adolf Belka wrote:
Hi Michael,
On 29/09/2025 17:44, Michael Tremer wrote:
Hello,
Thanks for testing this. So let’s go through this step by step…
First of all, is the companion daemon running? It is a process called
suricata-reporter.
I couldn't find it. Running ps aux | grep suricata showed suricata-watcher and
suricata but no suricata-reporter.
If so, can you check if the configuration file has emails enabled? It is in
/var/ipfire/suricata/reporter.conf.
Yes there is enabled = true in the [email] section.
And finally, can you run “mailq” to see if the emails have been sent and maybe
have bounced?
Ran that command and got a load of stuff but I don't understand it all all.
Here are just a few that were shown as examples
ID : 1a0794.335a3b40
From :
To : root
--
ID : 1a078b.335a3b40
From :
To : root
--
ID : 1a078a.335a3b40
From :
To : root
--
ID : 1a0789.335a3b40
From :
To : root
--
ID : 1a0788.335a3b40
From :
To : root
--
I am also seeing the following in the dma logs
17:15:00 dma[1a0792.335a3b40]: local delivery deferred: can not create
`/var/mail/root'
17:15:00 dma[1a0792.335a3b40]: error creating mbox `root'
17:15:00 dma[1a078c.335a3b40]: local delivery deferred: can not create
`/var/mail/root'
17:15:00 dma[1a078c.335a3b40]: error creating mbox `root'
17:15:00 dma[1a078a.335a3b40]: local delivery deferred: can not create
`/var/mail/root'
17:15:00 dma[1a078a.335a3b40]: error creating mbox `root'
17:15:00 dma[1a078e.335a3b40]: local delivery deferred: can not create
`/var/mail/root'
17:15:00 dma[1a078e.335a3b40]: error creating mbox `root'
17:15:00 dma[1a078a.335a3b40]: cannot execute /usr/lib/dma-mbox-create: No
such file or directory
17:15:00 dma[1a0788.335a3b40]: local delivery deferred: can not create
`/var/mail/root'
17:15:00 dma[1a0788.335a3b40]: error creating mbox `root'
17:15:00 dma[1a0790.335a3b40]: local delivery deferred: can not create
`/var/mail/root'
17:15:00 dma[1a0790.335a3b40]: error creating mbox `root'
17:15:00 dma[1a0792.335a3b40]: cannot execute /usr/lib/dma-mbox-create: No
such file or directory
17:15:00 dma[1a078c.335a3b40]: cannot execute /usr/lib/dma-mbox-create: No
such file or directory
17:15:00 dma[1a0792.335a3b40]: <root> trying delivery
17:15:00 dma[1a078c.335a3b40]: <root> trying delivery
Regards,
Adolf.
-Michael
On 29 Sep 2025, at 13:58, Adolf Belka <[email protected]> wrote:
Forgot to mention, I pressed the test button on the Mail Service WUI page and
immediately received the test mail message.
I use a mail server I have running on my local network.
Regards,
Adolf.
On 29/09/2025 14:52, Adolf Belka wrote:
Hi All,
I just ran the update for CU198 Testing on my vm systems.
The update itself went fine without any error messages or hiccups.
I then went to test the IPS emailing of alerts.
I used the same sender and recipient email addresses as I have specified on the
Mail Service WUI page.
I set the alert severity to All, Including Informational Alerts.
I then followed the suricata testing process as defined in
https://docs.suricata.io/en/suricata-8.0.1/quickstart.html#alerting
and I ended up with alerts in the IPS-Logs but no email message received.
I checked the System logs for the mail system and there was no message trying
to be sent. I ran the test 7 times, so ended up with 7 messages in the IPS-Logs.
I then checked the IPS system Logs and there was no mention of detecting the
alerts and trying to send an email.
I ran the command tail -f /var/log/messages so I could see any additional log
entries when I triggered the IPS alerts but again nothing was shown when I
triggered the alerts, although the messages did end up in the IPS Logs section.
Regards,
Adolf.
