recovered mails with attachment 🔗 link

Hi all,

yesterday I started migrating from xymon 4.0.2 to 4.3.7. Everything went easy, except of one thing.
Notification mails for service failure / critical I receive as 'normal' mail.
Notification mails for service recovered I receive a blank mail, with message in a file called 'Mail-Attachment'.

Thx in advance for any hint
Daniel

On 28-04-2012 11:25, Daniel Wolf wrote:

Xymon treats all mails the same - it generates the message as text, then invokes $MAIL (set in xymonserver.cfg) to send it.

If they show up different, my first guess would be that your mail client is playing games. If possible, do a "View source" (Thunderbird) to see what the mail really looks like.


Regards,
Henrik

Hi Henrik,

yes, the source of the mails is different. The 'good' or plain text mails have:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

and the 'bad' ones have:
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

but this happens on the xymon server. I see from /var/log/maillog

Apr 30 13:07:40 xymon64 sSMTP[16315]: 354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
Apr 30 13:07:40 xymon64 sSMTP[16315]: Received: by xymon64.domain.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:07:40 +0200
Apr 30 13:07:40 xymon64 sSMTP[16315]: From: "xymon Monitor" <user-8fbb006e94d3@xymon.invalid>
Apr 30 13:07:40 xymon64 sSMTP[16315]: Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:07:40 +0200
Apr 30 13:07:40 xymon64 sSMTP[16315]: To: user-afe02cd6ed72@xymon.invalid
Apr 30 13:07:40 xymon64 sSMTP[16315]: Subject: Xymon server.domain.com:http recovered
Apr 30 13:07:40 xymon64 sSMTP[16315]: User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08
Apr 30 13:07:40 xymon64 sSMTP[16315]: MIME-Version: 1.0
Apr 30 13:07:40 xymon64 sSMTP[16315]: Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Apr 30 13:07:40 xymon64 sSMTP[16315]: Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64


KR
Daniel

A quick search of the mail archive turned up this message:
http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/2011-September/032499.html

It's your mail agent ("Heirloom mailx 12.4", according to your log) that
inserts the "Content-type: application/octet-stream" header, that causes
your mail reading program to treat the message as an attachment.

Fixing it is outside Xymon.

Regards,
Henrik

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:28:20 +0200, Daniel Wolf <user-43aedf3281f9@xymon.invalid>

wrote:

+0200