thanx. I would prefer the message bodies were sent to the hobbit server. Is
there a way of doing that? Also, would the text appear in the hobbit
template or just as a regular text page?

Thanx. Avi R.

On 2-Aug-07, at 4:35 PM, Ralph Mitchell wrote:

On 8/2/07, Avi Rosenblatt <arosen at oleh.com> wrote:

...

Hi, I'm writing a custom script that parses a mailbox and sends the contents to the hobbit server. The problem is some emails are large, so I would like the status page to show a list of email subjects which, when one is clicked, would display the contents of that message. Is that possible? If so, how would I go about sending the body of each message and generating a link in the status page.

If your script assembles a message something like this:

LINE="status $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR date <a href=url_for_message_1>subject of message 1</a> <a href=url_for_message_2>subject of message 2</a>"

and then sends that to Hobbit using:

$BB $BBDISP "$LINE"

you should get a detail page with clickable links.

$MACHINE should be the machine name with commas instead of dots. $TEST should be the name of the column you want to report.

Ralph Mitchell

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HTML in status messages works for the most part, but remember that Hobbit confines your messages INTO A TABLE CELL when it lays out the webpages. This may be unnoticeable to you, or it may be a terrible limitation. For example, if you are trying to use stylesheets and javascript to show/hide div's, this won't work within table cells. Admittedly, that's a fairly sophisticated thing to try in a hobbit status message!

It would be nice if Hobbit did not use tables for layout, and went pure stylesheets instead.

-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 2:54 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] custom script help

On 8/2/07, Avi Rosenblatt <arosen at oleh.com> wrote:

thanx. I would prefer the message bodies were sent to the hobbit server. Is there a way of doing that? Also, would the text appear in the hobbit template or just as a regular text page?

The message you send can contain whatever you like, though there are some limitations, given that what you send is embedded inside a web page. You might be able to do some fancy stuff with stylesheets to make things appear and disappear, but I wouldn't want to bet on it that working. Especially if the mail could contain html tags that would interfere with the format.

Whatever message you send is what shows up in the detail page when you click through the colored dot that corresponds to $MACHINE & $TEST.

Ralph Mitchell

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On 8/2/07, Avi Rosenblatt <arosen at oleh.com> wrote:

the problem is each message body has to be sent separately outside of the status message since each message could easily be over 1MB. I prefer to do this through hobbit though. Is there a way to upload a large chunk of text into a file on the server that can be linked to in the status message?

The Hobbit server must have some kind of web server running, for the display. Why not upload the email files into some place in the web server docs tree using something like 'scp', then send a Hobbit status message with the links to http://localhost/my/mail/file.XXX, for however many messages there are?

Ralph Mitchell

Thanx. That's an idea, but I would need to generate keys to avoid
requiring login. That sounds best so far as I won't have to limit the size of the
message. Would there be a way to get the linked file to appear within the
hobbit template or would that be asking too much?

Thanx.

On 2-Aug-07, at 11:12 PM, Ralph Mitchell wrote:

On 8/2/07, Avi Rosenblatt <arosen at oleh.com> wrote:

...

the problem is each message body has to be sent separately outside of the status message since each message could easily be over 1MB. I prefer to do this through hobbit though. Is there a way to upload a large chunk of text into a file on the server that can be linked to in the status message?

The Hobbit server must have some kind of web server running, for the display. Why not upload the email files into some place in the web server docs tree using something like 'scp', then send a Hobbit status message with the links to http://localhost/my/mail/file.XXX, for however many messages there are?

Ralph Mitchell

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