Hello,
When I get an alert for the smtp test I get the WARNING message as a normal e-mail (text). The RECOVERD e-mail always is an attachment file with the .bin extention.
On this list people suggested it was a mail server problem. MS Exchange did have this behavior in the past. Now I looked a bit closer to the mailx command xymon uses to send it. This is in the mailx man page:
Mailx expects input text to be in Unix format, with lines sepa‐
rated by newline (^J, \n) characters only. Non-Unix text files
that use carriage return (^M, \r) characters in addition will be
treated as binary data; to send such files as text, strip these
characters e. g. by
tr -d '\015' <input | mailx . . .
or fix the tools that generate them.It seem that the RECOVERD message coming from xymon contains a “\r” character.
I think the output/e-mails in xymon should replace the “\r” with “\n” characters.
Regards,
Frederik Reenders, Systeembeheerder ICT-Servicecentrum Universiteit Twente, Postbus 217, 7500 AE Enschede Telefoon 053 489 6723 f.reenders at utwente.nl<mailto:l.m.visscher at utwente.nl>, http://www.utwente.nl/icts/