Re: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available

[Asif Iqbal <iqbala-hobbit (at) qwestip.net>]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 10:39:12PM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:06:40PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:03:24PM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > * A new tool - hobbit-mailack - was added. If setup to run from
> > >   e.g. the Hobbit users' .procmailrc file, you can acknowledge
> > >   alerts by responding to an alert email.
> > > [...] 
> > 
> > First of all thanks for creating a new tool for mailack. Now I noticed
> > in the hobbit-mailack.c file that it won't work without a valid Subject
> > line. Well when there is a mailack sent from skytel pager--which is what
> > we use--there is no valid subject comes with it and I attached two
> > sample emails, ack-email-from-skytel*, and I also attahced the
> > bb-pagerack.sh that I use if the email comes from skytel pager. Hobbit
> > checks the email in procmailrc and then redirect it to bb-emailack.sh
> > or bb-pagerack.sh based on the sender. Also I have two ACL files--one
> > for pager addresses and one for coporate email addresses--to
> > check if the sender is allowed to send an 'ACK'. I wonder if these
> > fetaures can be added in a future release.
> 
> This seems pretty specific to your setup, so my initial response would
> be that this is the kind of customisation that you should do on your
> own.
> 
> Your current script for processing the ack-mails should still work,
> and Hobbit does handle the "ack ack_event" command that the script
> uses to send in the acknowledge. So unless you can convince me to

Unless other people like to send ack through their pager I can't
convince you, hehe. 

> change my mind, I'll leave this out of Hobbit.

Like you said I still can use the older format so I am totally dead in
the water :-). Thank you

> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
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