Ah, it becomes clearer now!
With the suggestions from Phil Wild and Josh Luthman (and reading the
man page for hobbit-mailack) it seems that you are expected to use
procmail to use this program.
Phil, what you suggested seems to be just what Hobbit-mailack does,
receives the email and runs a program against its data.
Instead of using the procmail(1m) recipe suggested in the Hobbit-mailack
man page, you would need one like this:
====
DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox
LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log
:0
| $HOME/server/bin/hobbit/reformat_mailack
====
Your "reformat_mailack" script would need to rewrite the body text into
the subject line, then simply echo the data to the hobbit-mailack
command. Writing this linking script shouldn't be that hard (perl would
be better than shell, but either could do it).
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ward, Martin [mailto:user-2d33a6eb6a05@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 09 July 2008 10:10
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] mailack question
I can offer a suggestion but this is only an idea I have just
had, it's not been tried, tested or anything. Also bear in
mind that I had no idea that you could acknowledge an alert
via email... This suggestion might bugger that up in some
unforeseen manner.
Could you install something like procmail? I see it working
like this: 1. An email gets sent to you. 2. You reply to it
with the acknowledgement in the text body as you have stated.
3. This reply gets picked up by procmail before it reaches
Hobbit (maybe change the Reply-To in the original email to
route it to a different address). 4. Procmail decides that it
should process this email (there are various tests that can
be performed) and calls a script, passing the body of the
email (and the subject?) to it. 5. The script munges the
email so that the Subject line is made from the text in the
body of the email. 6. Script forwards to email on to its
original destination.
I can immediately see flaws in this. You're replying on
another piece of s/w. You've got to make sure that the
matching format works. If you want to use the say return
address then you need to ensure that email flows from
procmail to the Hobbit receiver. I'm sure there are others.
Still, it's one solution.
|\/|artin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Spencer [mailto:user-42a3456c44ef@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 09 July 2008 02:02
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] mailack question
Just thought I'd check back on this and surprised nobody had any
thoughts on it but also notice Henrik hasn't been around either.
Still have had no luck with this although I have not been
able to spend
much time on it.
Still have the same problem of not being able to ack an
alert via the
email body instead of the subject.
Cheers
Allan
Allan Spencer wrote:
HI all
A LONG time ago I asked about ack'ing an alert via email (or via
sms-to-email) and to be able to do so without a subject. A
patch was
written at the time and it was included into the main codebase but
unfortunately I did not get a chance to imeplement what I
wanted to
and never ended up testing it. Thats has just changed
recently and now
I am having issues acking an alert via text in the body.
If i reply to an email and maintain the subject it works
fine, if I
try cut the subject and paste it as the body nothing
happens. I havent
gone as far as testing it via the sms-to-email app yet as I
cant get
it working from a normal email.
I still have one other potential problem of me converting
the [] in
the alerts to () but thats more outbound sms and I can
deal with it
coming back inwards.
Any suggestions appreciated
Allan
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