Please fix the xymon digest settings

[Robert Herron]

The digest is still not quite right.  Maybe the listserver needs a
kick to reload its configuration.  Digest sent today:

26 Oct 2010 20:14:14 -0000   Issue 2696   Topics (messages 29819
through 29819) == 1 post
26 Oct 2010 20:04:10 -0000   Issue 2695   Topics (messages 29818
through 29818) == 1 post
26 Oct 2010 19:26:18 -0000   Issue 2694   Topics (messages 29817
through 29817) == 1 post
26 Oct 2010 19:21:19 -0000   Issue 2693   Topics (messages 29816
through 29816) == 1 post
26 Oct 2010 19:07:50 -0000   Issue 2692   Topics (messages 29815
through 29815) == 1 post
26 Oct 2010 18:33:51 -0000   Issue 2691   Topics (messages 29814
through 29814) == 1 post

Robert Herron
robert.herron at gmail.com



On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:16 PM,  <xymon-digest-help at xymon.com> wrote:
> From: Henrik "Størner" <henrik at hswn.dk>
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:16:38 +0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: [xymon] Please fix the xymon digest settings
> In <AANLkTi=8Lf2ZwLw7VoDJwGE3_RmUUg1qkh8eeAFoDKEF at mail.gmail.com> Robert Herron <robert.herron at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>Would someone change the list server's digest setting to be less chatty?
>>The listserver sent out 23 digest messages between 6:27 UTC and 13:43 UTC.
>>22 of which contained only one message.
>
> Sorry about that. I think I have found out what was happening: There was
> a threshold set so it would mail a digest message if more than 64 kB
> worth of message text had accumulated. With the proliferation of HTML emails,
> this would trigger much too soon.
>
> At least, I hope that was the reason why it was spewing those digests ...
>
> I've changed this now, so it should only send digests if a) it's been more
> than 24 hours since the last digest message, or b) for every 30 messages.