Just to follow up... I'm noticing that the .dat attachments with blank
emails are only sent for all recovery emails. This box is running
Ubuntu, and I didn't set it up, so I'm not sure where else to look for
weirdness with mail. Does anyone else have any suggestions? A minor
issue... but I'm not the one receiving alerts, so I'm being bugged about
it, and am floundering.
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:04 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Alerts as .dat attachments
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:35:38AM -0800, Kimberly McKinnis wrote:
Perhaps someone can help me shed some light on this. I'm receiving
some red alerts as .dat attachments. Is this normal behavior?
[snip]
Is this a default behavior I didn't know about? It doesn't seem to be
consistent. I've looked through the online page about configuring
alerts. Perhaps I've missed something in my alerts.cfg. Thanks!
You need to look at your local mail setup. Hobbit only generates a text
file with the URL for the status page; this is then handed off to the
"mail" utility installed on the Hobbit server. How that tool formats the
e-mail - possible with different MIME codings etc. - is beyond Hobbit's
control.
Regards,
Henrik