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SubaruEurope
Visitor III
February 8, 2023
Question

Fortigate v7.0.9: Email notifcations not working

  • February 8, 2023
  • 3 replies
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On our fortigate the email notifications are not working:

1. We are able to ping notifcation.fortinet.net

2. Debug of an email notifcation gives following result:

 

resolve notification.fortinet.net to 1 IP
==> send mail
can not start session

 

3. Email service settings are default.

 

3 replies

abarushka
Staff
Staff
February 8, 2023

Hello,

 

You may consider to collect debugs traces below once the issue is triggered:

 

diag debug reset
diag debug enable
diag debug console timestamp enable
diag debug application alertmail -1

diagnose log alertmail test

 

Traffic sniffer:

diagnose sniffer packet any 'host <IP address of the server>' 6 0 a

SubaruEurope
Visitor III
February 8, 2023

I also tested now with our internal mail server. the commands provided following output.

 

Seems to provide the following out put:

2023-02-08 13:58:39 mail_info:
from:"internal mail server" user:(null)
2023-02-08 13:58:39 _init_mail_info: no user
2023-02-08 13:58:39 mail_info:
reverse path:(null)
user name:(null)
2023-02-08 13:58:39 to[0]:
2023-02-08 13:58:39 to[1]:
2023-02-08 13:58:39 to[2]:
2023-02-08 13:58:39 <==_init_mail_info
2023-02-08 13:58:39 create session
2023-02-08 13:58:39 resolve "IP internal mail server" to 1 IP
2023-02-08 13:58:39 ==> send mail
2023-02-08 13:58:39 can not start session

 

0 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel

abarushka
Staff
Staff
February 8, 2023

Hello,

 

User is not defined and DNS entry is not resolved. I would recommend to open a TAC ticket, since it will be helpful to review the configuration.

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