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At least on Solaris' mailx command, you can set the from address with -r if I'm not mistaken.<br><br>Interesting info to file away though as I'm sure down the road our Solaris will be replaced by RHEL. <br><br></font><br> <br>
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<b>From</b>: Tom Moore [mailto:Tom.Moore@sas.com]
<br><b>Sent</b>: Friday, December 14, 2012 09:56 AM<br><b>To</b>: xymon@xymon.com <xymon@xymon.com>
<br><b>Subject</b>: Re: [Xymon] DAT attachments?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Same issue here. I configured this (plus nail allows you to change the FROM address so users replies go to someone instead of a black hole)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> xymon-bounces@xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott Pfister<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 14, 2012 8:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] DAT attachments?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">We had similar problem about a year ago. We moved our xymon server from fedora core 3 to SLES 11. Fedora used mail and SLES 11 mail is linked to mailx. The windows clients were sending carriage returns in
the status ^M (carriage return). The problem occured on SuSe server but not on redhat server, because mailx expects input text to be in Unix format, with lines separated by
<i>newline</i> (^J, \n) characters only. Non-Unix text files that use <i>carriage return</i> (^M, \r) characters in addition will be treated as binary data. Hence the reason we get notifications that showed up as attachments. Also explains why our AIX servers
didn't have the problem and the windows servers did. We tried creating a filter by setting MAILC="tr -d '\015' but had problems. We didn't spend much time on it. We switched to mutt. MAILC="/usr/local/bin/mutt". Problem went away.
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Herbert, Francois <<a href="mailto:F.Herbert@massey.ac.nz" target="_blank">F.Herbert@massey.ac.nz</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All my HTTP recovered alerts have attachments which just contain the output of the http test, not sure why, I've just put up with it….
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 13/12/2012, at 11:08 PM, <a href="mailto:F.Reenders@utwente.nl" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I only noticed this .dat attachement in the smtp test alert by the way.</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</span></a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xymon-" target="_blank">xymon-</a><a href="mailto:bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">bounces@xymon.com</span></a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:F.Reenders@utwente.nl" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">F.Reenders@utwente.nl</span></a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> donderdag 13 december 2012 9:50<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ejacobs@thomaspublishing.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">ejacobs@thomaspublishing.com</span></a>; <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">xymon@xymon.com</span></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] DAT attachments?</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</span></a> [<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com</span></a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Eric Jacobs<br>
<b>Sent:</b> woensdag 12 december 2012 21:52<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">xymon@xymon.com</span></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] DAT attachments?</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL">Recently noved our Xymon server from a vm running CentOS 5.8 to physical server running CentOS 6.3. Most things work correctly but I'm seeing some of the email alerts having .dat attachments. Anyone know why, and how to
fix this?<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL">-- <br>
Eric Jacobs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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