[Xymon] http alert mail as octet-stream

[Jeremy Laidman]

Yes, a fairly common problem. See solution discussed on the list:

http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-March/037159.html

J
 On Oct 11, 2013 7:24 PM, "Dirk Kastens" <dirk.kastens at uni-osnabrueck.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using xymon 4.3.11 on Scientific Linux 6.4
>
> I discovered a weird phenomenon with the alert mails that xymon is
> sending. Most mails are coded as text/ascii by my postfix MTA. Only the
> mails about http alerts are sent base64 encoded, because the content is
> regarded as an octet-stream. I had no idea why this happened, because the
> mails look normal as being ascii code. But when I used a script to store
> the message, I found out, that all lines of the http message are terminated
> by a ctrl-m character:
>
> ------------------------------**-
> BBALPHAMSG=myhost.xyz.de:http red [621842]
> red Fri Oct 11 09:43:45 2013: Not Found
>
> &red http://myhost.xyz.de/myurl - Not Found
>
> HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found^M
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:43:45 GMT^M
> Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)^M
> Vary: Accept-Encoding^M
> Content-Length: 308^M
> Connection: close^M
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1^M
>
> Seconds:     0.00
>
> ------------------------------**--
>
> Where does this happen and how can I change the behaviour?
>
> Thanks,
> Dirk
>
>
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