Is this a contact email or the From email that Nagios is using to send it out? Have you tried \\
Here is our email command command_line $USER1$/mime_mail "[NG] $HOSTNAME$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$" "Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\\nService: $HOSTACKAUTHOR$\\nInfo: $HOSTACKCOMMENT$\\nComment: $SERVICEACKAUTHOR$\\nInfo: $SERVICEACKCOMMENT$\\nComment: $SERVICEDESC$\\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\\nAdditional Info:\\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" $CONTACTEMAIL$ } -----Original Message----- From: Kyle O'Donnell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 5:53 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] ampersand in email address Yes and I've tried putting quotes around the $CONTACTEMAIL$ in the notification command, as well as in the email address definition in the contact. On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:22:30 +0000, Assaf Flatto <[email protected]> wrote: > Kyle O'Donnell wrote: >> Trying to figure out how to escape an ampersand (&) in one of the email >> addresses I need to send notifications to (yes it is RFC compliant). >> Short >> of writing a script with the address hard coded and creating a custom >> command what can be done? >> >> > have you tried escaping the '&' ? > > e.g dormant\&[email protected] (dormant esc ampersend dragon at > hiddenlair dot com ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
