[Xymon] Xymon notifcations disappear due to base64 encoding

[Ribeiro, Glauber]

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.

g

-----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 
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