Aaron: On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 11:35:36AM -0400, Birl wrote:
Aaron: > *uggh* Multipart messages. For the sake of those on this list, Im
Aaron: > trashing that multipart attachment. I'll leave the text attachment.
Aaron: >
Aaron: > 1) Please configure your email client to post in plain text BEFORE (or
Aaron: > instead of) HTML. We *N?X folk (Linux/UNIX) dont much like HTML
emails
Aaron:
Aaron: Actually, I composed that on Linux using mutt. I see you're using pine,
Aaron: which honestly I used for years and years before I came to my senses and
Aaron: swtiched- mostly because mutt's handling of MIME (and specifically
Aaron: PGP/MIME which has replaced in-line PGP signatures which is all that
Aaron: pine supports) is so much better. But I don't want to get into a
Aaron: pissing contest over who's mail client is better (well at least not
Aaron: today :-)
Aaron:
Aaron: Anyways, the MIME attachment you saw wasn't HTML crap (I hate that too),
Aaron: but rather my RFC compliant PGP signature. If you're not interested
Aaron: in that sort of thing, by all means, ignore it.
Ah, yes.
[ Part 1.2, Application/PGP-SIGNATURE 270bytes. ]
[ Cannot display this part. Press "V" then "S" to save in a file. ]
My apologies to all for my assinine assumption. :(
Maybe I should switch to Mutt and/or complain to Pine :p
Aaron: > 2) Wrong mailing list to ask that question about escalating paging.
Aaron:
Aaron: Actually the question was about email and paging using two-way pagers
Aaron: which have email addresses. Yes, escalation was an important part
Aaron: of that. Perhaps this wasn't clear enough in my original email;
Aaron: I appologize.
Aaron:
Aaron:
Aaron: > 3) To answer your question: Look at Big Brother http://www.bb4.com/
Aaron:
Aaron: Yep, I'm familar with that. Unfortunately, I don't want/need a
Aaron: system/network monitoring software. I just want something that when it
Aaron: recieves an email (say: emergency-contact(_at_)company(_dot_)com) it
does the pager
Aaron: escalation thing until one of the pagers emails a response "I'm on it".
Aaron: Again, I probably wasn't clear enough.
I would think that you need some sort (mailer?) daemon that would
* email first user
* wait for response
* while no response
* email next user
* sleep. cause sleep is good.
* if response
* do something
But I cannot see how procmail would fit into the picture.
What about looking into how BB handles it's paging? I believe its mostly
shell scripts.
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