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Thank you for your responses. You have highlighted to me that firstly, I lacked a proper understanding of how mime types and mime headers work in email, and secondly that the mail utility on RHEL 7 doesn't support changing mime types!</div>
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To work around the problem, I borrowed Kris's script and used sendmail to send the email instead. I then set manually the "Content-Type" header to "text/html". Below is an example of something that works for me on RHEL7.</div>
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Another question on xymon alerts... what is the significance of the ampersand in "&red" in an alert message? </div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 5 May 2022 5:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kris Springer <kspringer@innovateteam.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> xymon@xymon.com <xymon@xymon.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] Trouble With Alert Format</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Kris,
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<div>I would love to see Slack alerts if you wouldn't mind.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 12:54 PM Kris Springer <<a href="mailto:kspringer@innovateteam.com" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="">kspringer@innovateteam.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Here's some details of how I send email alerts. They're completely <br>
customizable. Hope it helps.<br>
<a href="http://www.krisspringer.com/posts/xymon-email-alerts.php" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="">http://www.krisspringer.com/posts/xymon-email-alerts.php</a><br>
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I have since switched to Slack alerts instead of emails, but those are a <br>
bit more complex. Let me know if you want instructions for that.<br>
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Kris Springer<br>
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On 5/4/22 09:38, Adam Thorn wrote:<br>
> On 04/05/2022 12:22, Jonathan Bishop wrote:<br>
>> Hello fellow xymoners,<br>
>><br>
>> I have recently setup monitoring of the existence of files in a <br>
>> particular directory, and this seems to be working well. When I setup <br>
>> an alert for a "red" condition, I receive an email message with what <br>
>> appears to be some html tags within it, eg:<br>
>><br>
>> &red <a <br>
>> href="/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?CLIENT=<a href="http://myserver.com" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="">myserver.com</a>&SECTION=file:/path/to/myfile">/path/to/myfile</a><br>
>> File is a - should be file<br>
>><br>
>> I have tried setting the alert "FORMAT" to TEXT, PLAIN and SMS, but <br>
>> this doesn't seem to have any effect. I have also tried sending the <br>
>> alert through the <a href="http://html_mail.pl" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="">
html_mail.pl</a> extension scripts, and this doesn't <br>
>> seem to have any effect either. All I really want is a plain text <br>
>> message, which is easy to read. Does anyone know how I could clean <br>
>> this up?<br>
>><br>
>> Example Alert Config:<br>
>> HOST=<a href="http://myserver.com" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="">myserver.com</a><br>
>> MAIL <a href="mailto:alerts@someone.who.cares.com" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="">
alerts@someone.who.cares.com</a> REPEAT=240m COLOR=red <br>
>> FORMAT=TEXT<br>
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> This may be a red herring, but I wonder if you could try changing the <br>
> order of the different parts of the config line to e.g.<br>
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> HOST=<a href="http://myserver.com" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="">myserver.com</a> COLOR=red MAIL
<a href="mailto:alerts@someone.who.cares.com" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="">
alerts@someone.who.cares.com</a> <br>
> FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=240m<br>
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> Quoting selectively from the stock comments at the top of my <br>
> alerts.cfg file ....<br>
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> This file is made up from RULES and RECIPIENTS.<br>
> A RULE is a filter made from ... (etc etc)<br>
> A RECIPIENT can be a MAIL address, or a SCRIPT. Recipients can also <br>
> have rules associated with them...<br>
><br>
> ..so for your rule, HOST and COLOR constitute the "RULE", MAIL is the <br>
> "RECIPIENT", and REPEAT and FORMAT then modify the "RECIPIENT". Your <br>
> rule mixes together tokens from the RULE and RECIPIENT parts, which <br>
> might lead to the config rule not being parsed properly.<br>
><br>
> (Or maybe this is nonsense and the order doesn't matter here; I <br>
> suspect it would take a careful reading of the source to see how the <br>
> different tokens in that config file get parsed)<br>
><br>
> Adam<br>
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