[Xymon] Xymon notifcations disappear due to base64 encoding

[Benjamin Smith]

On Thursday, February 05, 2015 07:40:13 AM Mark Felder wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015, at 19:05, Benjamin Smith wrote:
> > We've wasted time playing with a wrapper for the mail command that would
> > strip
> > out the "\r" in the alerts but this has, so far, proven fruitless.
> > Messages
> > sent via the Sprint SMS gateway go through just fine. Wondering if
> > anybody else
> > has seen this issue, or has any idea what the best way to handle it might
> > be?
> 
> I warn you this (probably) isn't exactly what you're looking for, but
> I've stopped using the SMS email gateways due to reliability issues and
> when things are really going bad -- rate limiting. Instead I've moved to
> sending my notifications through Pushover.net which sends (fast!!) push
> notifications to phones.
> 
> You can send messages two ways: their email gateway, or write a
> notification script that uses their REST api. It's very simple. I wrote
> this in a few minutes and haven't looked back.


I will be evaluating this alongside the other fix in this thread. 

Glauber presented a simple solution that solves our immediate problem. 
Otherwise, we've had no issue with SMS messages for years. (Verizon) I'm 
testing both solutions. 

Thanks! 

Ben