Plugin Nagios check_smtp_send Not working with Ubuntu

[Anis]

We are using the ubuntu delivered nagios plugin check_smtp_send to monitor the smtp server using this command:

check_smtp_send -H smtp.gmail.com -p 587 --tls -U <email address hidden> -P XXXXXXXXXX --mailto <email address hidden> --mailfrom <email address hidden>

But we got this error

SMTP SEND CRITICAL - Can't locate object method "message" via package "Net::SMTP::TLS" at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_smtp_send line 161, <GEN0> line 10.

But when use the old version of the plugin check_smtp_send '0.7.2' ( not delivered by ubuntu ) with the same command works fine.

What we should do ?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[hkais (r-2)]

are there any updates on this issue?

[Anis (majdoub-anis)]

no we still have issue.

2015-12-16 11:13 GMT+01:00 hkais <email address hidden>:

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> Title:
> Plugin Nagios check_smtp_send Not working with Ubuntu
>
> Status in nagios-plugins package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> We are using the ubuntu delivered nagios plugin check_smtp_send to
> monitor the smtp server using this command:
>
> check_smtp_send -H smtp.gmail.com -p 587 --tls -U
> <email address hidden> -P XXXXXXXXXX --mailto <email address hidden>
> --mailfrom <email address hidden>
>
> But we got this error
>
> SMTP SEND CRITICAL - Can't locate object method "message" via package
> "Net::SMTP::TLS" at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_smtp_send line 161,
> <GEN0> line 10.
>
>
> But when use the old version of the plugin check_smtp_send '0.7.2' (
> not delivered by ubuntu ) with the same command works fine.
>
> What we should do ?
>
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[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You have not provided any version information in your report. Please execute the following command only once, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

apport-collect 1497564

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

Once done, please change the bug status back to New.

This will need further investigation to see if it has been fixed in a newer upstream release, and if it has then the fix will probably need backporting to the release that you are using. Volunteers to figure this out and provide a patch welcome.

[hkais (r-2)]

Maybe a stupid questions, I cannot get the apport-collect up and running on a shell only (no X-Server) machine.

Attached the data I have collected on a machine there the nagios-plugin is failing.

Please let me know if you need more details?

[Robie Basak (racb)]

The apport file you attached is sufficient, thanks.

[Jan Wagner (waja)]

check_smtp_send is not part of monitoring-plugins or nagios-plugins upstream project. It is part of check_email_delivery ( http://buhacoff.net/software/check_email_delivery/) which is packaged into the nagios-plugins-contrib package (at least in Debian). A version 0.7.2 was never in this package and as far as I know, was newer released by upstream

[Jan Wagner (waja)]

Reassigning to the correct package

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi,
nagios is somewhat unmaintained and getting removed from Debian and Ubuntu on newer releases.
So I'd not expect too much attention on this which is kind of confirmed by being dormant so long.

OTOH there were a few updates to the contrib in zesty and artful.
So since the report the version went from 16.20151226 to 21.20170222.

It might be helpful to test with that if this is resolved, if so it might be suitable for an SRU.

[Jan Wagner (waja)]

Fix is available since 29.20210204ubuntu2