[Xymon] html_mail.pl help

[KING, KEVIN (ATTSI)]

David,

 

I am clear on the Xymon-mailack.  The text issue is resolved by the changing to text for the response. I am testing the delay feature. I sent a sample of the mail to you off list. IS there a way to stop the repeating background color band? It should only have the one on the left side. Is that something outlook is doing or the output from the html_mail.pl?  Oh and anything on the mail message length? The full message is not sent. No link to the test page in the message. 

 

-Kevin

 

From: David Baldwin [mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au] 
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 7:01 PM
To: KING, KEVIN (ATTSI)
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] html_mail.pl help

 

Kevin, 

Thanks David,

 

I have it running now. I am finding that when using the email ack function these messages are not getting parsed correctly. It is not seeing the delay or and comment text.

 

I have never used or tested the email ack function, so not sure what it is expecting.




Quite likely xymon-mailack doesn't handle MIME messages ("This is a multi-part message" would indicate this), since there would be too many options to have to cater for.

It is possibly a side effect in your MUA (Outlook?) of receiving an html formatted alert e-mail that by default an HTML reply will be generated - can you configure your mail client to do a plain text e-mail reply? Thunderbird has this feature in the address book selectable per user.

Did it work before you tried html_mail.pl ?

I don't think it is a limitation of html_mail.pl as such, unless some extra headers could assist in hinting to a MUA to reply in plaintext only.

David. 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: David Baldwin [mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au]

> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 7:58 PM

> To: KING, KEVIN (ATTSI)

> Cc: xymon at xymon.com

> Subject: Re: [Xymon] html_mail.pl help

> 

> On 26/05/11 2:26 AM, KING, KEVIN (ATTSI) wrote:

> > David,

> >

> > Where can I dl this? I goggled for it. But the hits I got were in the

> > message archives and those are blocked to be at work.

> >

> http://xymonton.org/doku.php/alerts

> 

> David.

> > -Kevin

> >

> >> -----Original Message-----

> >> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On

> >> Behalf Of David Baldwin

> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 9:51 PM

> >> To: Joe Rindfleisch

> >> Cc: xymon at xymon.com

> >> Subject: Re: [Xymon] html_mail.pl help

> >>

> >> Joe,

> >>> I got your name from the html_mail.pl script.  I recently updated

> to

> >>> xymon 4.3.2 and tried to go live in production.

> >>>

> >>> On all alerts it seems to send out alerts to this one email

> address.

> >>> it seems to send out to all that are intended to receive the emails

> >>> but the one email has only two hosts that it monitors and gets

> > alerts

> >>> from.  now it gets emails on the entire environment.

> >>>

> >> I can't follow what the problem is.

> >>

> >> The script gets called from the alerts.cfg file via the SCRIPT

> > keyword.

> >> The hosts it applies to will be determined by the alerts.cfg file

> >> rules.

> >> The recipient for e-mails is specified by the RCPT environment

> > variable

> >> when the script is called.

> >>

> >> Without the old and new config to compare, I can't help any further.

> >>> I see a lot of references to BB, has this script been updated?

> >>>

> >> The environment variable names have not changed that I know of, but

> I

> >> haven't used it with 4.3.x myself yet.

> >>> # Version       Author          Details

> >>> # -------       ------          -------

> >>> # 1.0           Martin Ward     Initial version. See code for

> >> details.

> >>> # 1.1           David Baldwin   Clean up, remove hard-coded paths.

> >>> # 1.2           David Baldwin   format message as alternative parts

> >>> for plaintext and HTML views

> >>>

> >>> thanks for your help

> >> I've CCed to the xymon list which is a better place to get general

> >> help.

> >>

> >> David.

> >>

> >> --

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David Baldwin - IT Unit
Australian Sports Commission          www.ausport.gov.au
Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830       PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616
david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au          Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617
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