[Xymon] Email alerts with attachments - known solution not working

[Henrik Størner]

Den 29-01-2014 00:44, Shawn Heisey skrev:
> On 1/28/2014 2:19 PM, Henrik Størner wrote:
>> Have you tried using a different mail client? If you are on a Linux
>> box, then installing a tool like "mutt" should be easy - I think it is
>> included in all of the common distributions, and it knows how to
>> handle non-ASCII content by setting the right MIME-type headers,
>> encoding text as base-64 and so on.
>>
>> As far as Xymon is concerned, mutt uses the same commandline syntax.
>> So you can just replace "mail" with "mutt" in the default MAILC
>> setting in xymonserver.cfg.
>
> I'm on CentOS 6.  I installed mutt and changed MAILC to "mutt" ... but
> once I did that, I did not get any notifications at all.  I'm trying
> "mutt -x" because the man page says that emulates mailx compose mode. Do
> I need to use something else?

Not "mutt -x", that requires someone sitting at a terminal. Just plain
	MAILX="mutt"
works fine with my mutt+sendmail+CentOS 6.3 test setup.

I am not sure if it solves your problem with the weird characters. My 
normal mail client (Thunderbird) displays UTF-8 and UTF-16 characters 
without a hitch, but it does depend on the program you use to read the 
alerts, and on how the text is generated. Neither of those are within 
Xymon control.


Regards,
Henrik