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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