RE: [hobbit] Alerts as .dat attachments

["Kimberly McKinnis" <kmckinnis (at) macrovision.com>]

Just to follow up... I'm noticing that the .dat attachments with blank
emails are only sent for all recovery emails. This box is running
Ubuntu, and I didn't set it up, so I'm not sure where else to look for
weirdness with mail. Does anyone else have any suggestions? A minor
issue... but I'm not the one receiving alerts, so I'm being bugged about
it, and am floundering.

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik (at) hswn.dk] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:04 PM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Alerts as .dat attachments

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:35:38AM -0800, Kimberly McKinnis wrote:
> Perhaps someone can help me shed some light on this. I'm receiving 
> some red alerts as .dat attachments. Is this normal behavior?
[snip]
> Is this a default behavior I didn't know about? It doesn't seem to be 
> consistent. I've looked through the online page about configuring 
> alerts. Perhaps I've missed something in my alerts.cfg. Thanks!

You need to look at your local mail setup. Hobbit only generates a text
file with the URL for the status page; this is then handed off to the
"mail" utility installed on the Hobbit server. How that tool formats the
e-mail - possible with different MIME codings etc. - is beyond Hobbit's
control.


Regards,
Henrik


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