[hobbit] mailack question

[Phil Wild]

I was thinking of looking through the mail-ack c code tonight. I am not a C
programmer at all, but it may be not all that hard to convert mail-ack to
just commandline-ack

Then you could write your own little wrapper to extract what you want from
the sms stream and pump it into hobbit.

I just spent an hour trying to fudge the cgi script bb-ack.sh to do the
above but could not get it to work properly - not a very nice soln though as
stdout from bb-ack is a heap of html as opposed to a nice clean exit status
etc.

Thoughts???

Phil

2008/7/9 Ward, Martin <Martin.Ward at colt.net>:

> I can offer a suggestion but this is only an idea I have just had, it's
> not been tried, tested or anything. Also bear in mind that I had no idea
> that you could acknowledge an alert via email... This suggestion might
> bugger that up in some unforeseen manner.
>
> Could you install something like procmail? I see it working like this:
> 1. An email gets sent to you.
> 2. You reply to it with the acknowledgement in the text body as you have
> stated.
> 3. This reply gets picked up by procmail before it reaches Hobbit (maybe
> change the Reply-To in the original email to route it to a different
> address).
> 4. Procmail decides that it should process this email (there are various
> tests that can be performed) and calls a script, passing the body of the
> email (and the subject?) to it.
> 5. The script munges the email so that the Subject line is made from the
> text in the body of the email.
> 6. Script forwards to email on to its original destination.
>
> I can immediately see flaws in this. You're replying on another piece of
> s/w. You've got to make sure that the matching format works. If you want
> to use the say return address then you need to ensure that email flows
> from procmail to the Hobbit receiver. I'm sure there are others.
>
> Still, it's one solution.
>
> |\/|artin
> --
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Allan Spencer [mailto:allan at zandahar.net]
> > Sent: 09 July 2008 02:02
> > To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> > Subject: Re: [hobbit] mailack question
> >
> >
> > Just thought I'd check back on this and surprised nobody had any
> > thoughts on it but also notice Henrik hasn't been around either.
> >
> > Still have had no luck with this although I have not been
> > able to spend
> > much time on it.
> >
> > Still have the same problem of not being able to ack an alert via the
> > email body instead of the subject.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Allan
> >
> > Allan Spencer wrote:
> > > HI all
> > >
> > > A LONG time ago I asked about ack'ing an alert via email (or via
> > > sms-to-email) and to be able to do so without a subject. A
> > patch was
> > > written at the time and it was included into the main codebase but
> > > unfortunately I did not get a chance to imeplement what I wanted to
> > > and never ended up testing it. Thats has just changed
> > recently and now
> > > I am having issues acking an alert via text in the body.
> > >
> > > If i reply to an email and maintain the subject it works fine, if I
> > > try cut the subject and paste it as the body nothing
> > happens. I havent
> > > gone as far as testing it via the sms-to-email app yet as I
> > cant get
> > > it working from a normal email.
> > >
> > > I still have one other potential problem of me converting the [] in
> > > the alerts to () but thats more outbound sms and I can deal with it
> > > coming back inwards.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions appreciated
> > >
> > > Allan
> > >
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