Thanks Mr. Nelson, Was able to figure it out =) When I originally setup the email account filters, I had forgotten that I made a custom named jail, "posfix-auth" which had non-default action attached to it. I added the default action, which send an email.
I'll see how it works. The above revelation also helped me to set default settings to those I wanted, without having always having to reset them on a restart =) *fingers crossed* -----Original Message----- From: Dave Nelson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Fail2ban-users] email notifications from all jails Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 15:27:58 +0300 Hi, let me try to give you a partial answer. If you are wanting mail alerts from some jails but not others, it's possible but I can't reliably give you that explanation right now. Apart from that, you should open jail.conf and then re-save it as jail.local. All your customizations should go in fail2ban.local. In there look for: destemail = root@localhost and change it to your desired email address for the notifications. You'll need to have sendmail or postfix installed and working. sendmail is the easiest, and is the default: mta = sendmail Then you need to configure the default action when a jail is triggered: action = %(action_mwl)s will send you an email with lines from your logs. Beware, those email alerts arrive when you start and stop fail2ban and every time a jail is triggered. They can become very frequent if you have a lot of hits from bad guys, or a large number of jails activated. HTH and good luck, Dave On 2019-05-04 11:18, Esteban L via Fail2ban-users wrote: > Hello, > > I am able to receive these from "dovecot" banishments. > > However, I would like to receive the warning for "postfix-auth" jail > malfeasance. > > Which file would I have to edit to get this action. I have searched > around the places I would expect, like: > jail.conf, jail.local, fail2ban.conf but usually it says not to edit > those. > > Also, checked the mail.conf and mail-whois.conf, as well as some > sendmail.conf files, but nothing stands out. > > Can anyone throw me a bone? I assume it must be easy for smoeone =) > > Thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > Fail2ban-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users _______________________________________________ Fail2ban-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users _______________________________________________ Fail2ban-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users
