Re: CU198 Testing - first feedback on Suricata alert email sending

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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.

If so, can you check if the configuration file has emails enabled? It is in /var/ipfire/suricata/reporter.conf.

And finally, can you run “mailq” to see if the emails have been sent and maybe have bounced?

-Michael

> On 29 Sep 2025, at 13:58, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org> 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.
> 
>