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. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Herbert, Francois <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:F.Herbert@massey.ac.nz" target="_blank">F.Herbert@massey.ac.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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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<div>On 13/12/2012, at 11:08 PM, <a href="mailto:F.Reenders@utwente.nl" target="_blank">F.Reenders@utwente.nl</a> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">I only noticed this .<span>dat</span><span> </span><span>attachement</span><span> </span>in
the<span> </span><span>smtp</span><span> </span>test alert by the way.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">Frederik<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span> </span><a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a><span> </span>[mailto:<a href="mailto:xymon-" target="_blank">xymon-</a><a href="mailto:bounces@xymon.com" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">bounces@xymon.com</a>]<span> </span><b>On
Behalf Of<span> </span></b><a href="mailto:F.Reenders@utwente.nl" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">F.Reenders@utwente.nl</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span> </span>donderdag 13 december 2012 9:50<br>
<b>To:</b><span> </span><a href="mailto:ejacobs@thomaspublishing.com" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">ejacobs@thomaspublishing.com</a>;<span> </span><a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Re: [Xymon] DAT attachments?<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Hi,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">I think this is the issue(from the man page of mailx on centos 6.3:<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">“Mailx<span> <span> </span></span>expects input text to be in Unix format, with lines sepa-<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US"><span> <span> </span></span>rated by newline (^J, \n) characters only.<span> <span> </span></span>Non-Unix
text<span> <span> </span></span>files<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US"><span> <span> </span></span>that use carriage return (^M, \r) characters in addition will be<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US"><span> <span> </span></span>treated as binary data; to send such files as text, strip<span> <span> </span></span>these<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US"><span> <span> </span></span>characters e. g. by<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US"><span> <span> </span></span>tr -d ’\015’ <input | mailx . . .<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US"><span> <span> </span></span>or fix the tools that generate them.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">There is a \r carriage return in the alert message. I noticed it before but got no reply on the list.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">In previous mailx versions mailx did not convert it to binary data.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">Frederik Reenders<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span> </span><a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a><span> </span>[<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>]<span> </span><b>On
Behalf Of<span> </span></b>Eric Jacobs<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span> </span>woensdag 12 december 2012 21:52<br>
<b>To:</b><span> </span><a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span> </span>[Xymon] DAT attachments?<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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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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