From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail02.haj.ipfire.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mail02.haj.ipfire.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4cb1T108Krz30GB for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:58:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail01.ipfire.org (mail01.haj.ipfire.org [IPv6:2001:678:b28::25]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange x25519) (Client CN "mail01.haj.ipfire.org", Issuer "R13" (verified OK)) by mail02.haj.ipfire.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4cb1Sx4RT8z2xRF for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:58:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange x25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail01.ipfire.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4cb1Sw5KNyz81 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:58:08 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ipfire.org; s=202003ed25519; t=1759150688; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=JCOqEAjRLFMGqDUMg8WPZRDBl2ctfys8gYH+Z3tygFE=; b=jWrdFd449ArTocSllpNraGaxHCb3qZE2pNeEkqtOj4U2+8eDdMlbp/iD7sGDSrAadWc4rL 2VQTj0e90GU4JjBg== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ipfire.org; s=202003rsa; t=1759150688; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=JCOqEAjRLFMGqDUMg8WPZRDBl2ctfys8gYH+Z3tygFE=; b=H3TnTCBfMkYN+w/0wNNhnb7u3LFATZD3EVqkDqhsbADPV6EbMjrm93bLhCuZ893YFwDJpY VJy6whFLBKp5rQRZI+UsiSgPRXGW8ep6CSiOLtBLM1SoWBkTofX+37F1qrwkpKKea0XkFW 9Vh1YZIJrgCtN+s4NkzT4hF9lcU6HV7HRN1BXq4FktKOw2pwNzASnqrsk6WaiVMd9mkqPl HH8UDY5g5xJnFjuHngYQhbEZRkWP/C8eIy1moSOxPrzdYWsJsfGKMNbfY10t3mef4rqfYi QuXGxe5G6s85MVa8wUU1O9gVfn8cP81IR+RI6U4xrsflNj3weyHKcpNGU3HCRw== Message-ID: <82147ae8-47c7-4556-885e-f7c18d335f51@ipfire.org> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:58:05 +0200 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: Sender: Mail-Followup-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: CU198 Testing - first feedback on Suricata alert email sending From: Adolf Belka To: "IPFire: Development-List" References: <40cff986-5ded-4b11-8479-83393662b9f2@ipfire.org> Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <40cff986-5ded-4b11-8479-83393662b9f2@ipfire.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. >