We want to send alerts to our admin staff from some of our remote
servers. All the servers are Debian based and supply, smtp, imaps, file
sharing (webdav), calendar and address book capabilities.
To send the alerts we have tried email and sms messaging. eMail works
but can be slow depending upon the number and quailiy of hops needed to
get from the server to the admin.
We had thought of of simply using a cell phone modem for each server.
However cellular service at some of the locations is unreliable (too far
north). To get round this we are thinking of using the email to SMS
services offered by our telcos. We think SMS might be "faster" and more
reliable as all network traffic passes through out telcos/ISPs centres
fairly soon after leaving us.
So, why doesn't this work
echo "message text \r" | /usr/bin/mail -s "Server xxx - Alert" -r
r...@example.com 4165551...@txt.bell.ca
If I run the above I get a test message with the subject and sender
correct, but the message arrives with "this message was sent with
attachments which were lost".
If I send same data using a thunderbird, outlook ... it works perfectly.
Looking in the various logs I cannot see any difference between the two
message. Postfix seems to behave in exactly the same way all cases.
Help!
JohnA
