Re: {bb} Email-Notification with attachment instead of text

[Katharina Wolkwitz <wolkwitz@fh-swf.de>]

Thanks Phil it works! :-)

Greetings Katharina

Philip Clark schrieb:
> Resent, as the original appears to have been dropped.
> 
> On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 09:10 +0200, Katharina Wolkwitz wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> thanks for taking the time to answer my question.
> 
> You're welcome :)
> 
>> I've tried to understand the information of the thread you mentioned, but I have
>> to admit that I failed...
> 
> Ah, I'm sorry about that. It did get a little convoluted.
> 
>> Of those options you've mentioned to me the first two are not feasible for me as
>> I definitly lack the necessary programming skills.
>> The third option might work, if I knew how to do it. ;-)
> 
> I think that option can be ruled out. The authors appear to be
> determined not to provide that option, no matter how many people
> they inconvenience.
> 
>> That leaves the fourth option. I'm willing to try it, but as I'm using the MUA
>> that came with the SuSE-Linux-10.2-DVD and I didn't choose it specifically, I'm
>> at a loss when it comes to choosing an alternative.
>> Perhaps you can give my advice which MUA I should install.
> 
> Actually, that may not turn out to be the easiest option. It might
> break other things and, unless there are packaged alternatives
> available, might require you to go back to source code.
> 
>> The MUA my BB-Server is currently talking to and sending mails through
>> identifies itself as:
>>
>> Heirloom mailx 12.1 6/15/06
> 
> Which is apparently the new name for (you've guessed it) "nail" :(
> 
>> Sorry to be such a bother, but it would greatly simplify working with the
>> BigBrother-mail-notification, if they arrived as simple text mails instead of
>> attachments. :-)
> 
> Here is a "low impact" version of option #2. I've attached a one-line
> wrapper script, called "maily" to conform to my warped sense of homour.
> Drop that into the directory where your current mail command is (most
> likely /usr/bin), and use "chmod" to ensure that it's executable.
> 
> Next, take a look at what is currently configured as MAIL in bbsys.sh.
> If it's "/usr/bin/mail -s", you can simply change it to "/usr/bin/maily
> -s" and it should work. If the command is "mailx", or something else,
> you might also need to edit my script to point to the same command.
> 
> Once that is done, it should stop BB mail arriving with attachments.
> Just let me know if it doesn't work for you and I'll try and work out
> what went wrong.
> 
> Cheers, Phil.
> 
> ----(attachment in-lined)----
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> ##
> ##  maily  --  A simple wrapper script for mailx that strips out MS-DOS
> ##             style line termination. This prevents Heirloom mailx
> ##             (formerly known as nail) from formatting the text as a
> ##             MIME attachment.
> 
> ##  Set the mail command to whatever would normally be in bbsys.sh
> cat - | tr -d '\015' | /usr/bin/mail "$@"
> 
> 
> 
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Katharina Wolkwitz

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