[hobbit] mailack question

[Phil Wild]

You do not need to use procmail. I simply have a .forward configured to pipe
to mailack in the hobbit home directory

Cheers

Phil

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

> Ah, it becomes clearer now!
>
> With the suggestions from Phil Wild and Josh Luthman (and reading the
> man page for hobbit-mailack) it seems that you are expected to use
> procmail to use this program.
>
> Phil, what you suggested seems to be just what Hobbit-mailack does,
> receives the email and runs a program against its data.
>
> Instead of using the procmail(1m) recipe suggested in the Hobbit-mailack
> man page, you would need one like this:
> ====
> DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox
> LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log
> :0
> | $HOME/server/bin/hobbit/reformat_mailack
> ====
> Your "reformat_mailack" script would need to rewrite the body text into
> the subject line, then simply echo the data to the hobbit-mailack
> command. Writing this linking script shouldn't be that hard (perl would
> be better than shell, but either could do it).
>
> --
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ward, Martin [mailto:Martin.Ward at colt.net]
> > Sent: 09 July 2008 10:10
> > To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> > Subject: RE: [hobbit] mailack question
> >
> >
> > 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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