I'm glad for the info about Pushover, because it seems it could be implemented very easily with xymon. At this point, I'm not having problems with SMS, but I'm keeping Pushover as a possibility.
One possible downside of using Pushover, is that it would require Internet connectivity on the cell phone (SMS/MMS doesn't).
Someone really should come up with an affordable true SMS WebService (not email) gateway.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Benjamin Smith
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 11:59
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon notifcations disappear due to base64 encoding
On Thursday, February 05, 2015 07:40:13 AM Mark Felder wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015, at 19:05, Benjamin Smith wrote:
We've wasted time playing with a wrapper for the mail command that would
strip
out the "\r" in the alerts but this has, so far, proven fruitless.
Messages
sent via the Sprint SMS gateway go through just fine. Wondering if
anybody else
has seen this issue, or has any idea what the best way to handle it might
be?
I warn you this (probably) isn't exactly what you're looking for, but
I've stopped using the SMS email gateways due to reliability issues and
when things are really going bad -- rate limiting. Instead I've moved to
sending my notifications through Pushover.net which sends (fast!!) push
notifications to phones.
You can send messages two ways: their email gateway, or write a
notification script that uses their REST api. It's very simple. I wrote
this in a few minutes and haven't looked back.
I will be evaluating this alongside the other fix in this thread.
Glauber presented a simple solution that solves our immediate problem.
Otherwise, we've had no issue with SMS messages for years. (Verizon) I'm
testing both solutions.
Thanks!
Ben