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reporter-mailx – Sends contents of a problem directory via email.

Synopsis

reporter-mailx [-v] -d DIR [-c CONFFILE] [-F FMTFILE]

Description

The tool reads a problem directory, composes an email message from the directory contents, and uses mailx to send the message to specified recipient.

Properties of email messages can be specified in a configuration file, and via environment variables.

Configuration file

Configuration file contains entries in a format "Option = Value".

The options are:

Subject

The subject of the email message.

EmailFrom

The sender of the email message.

EmailTo

The recipient of the email message.

SendBinaryData

Use yes/true/on/1 to attach all binary files from the problem directory to the email. This can cause the emails to be very large.

Formatting configuration files

Lines starting with # are ignored.

Lines can be continued on the next line using trailing backslash.

Format:

"%summary

subject format"

"section

element1[,element2]…" The literal text line to be added to email. Can be empty. (Empty lines are NOT ignored!)

Subject format is a line of text, where %element% is replaced by

text element’s content, and [[…%element%…]] block is used only if

%element% exists. [[…]] blocks can nest.

Sections can be:

– %summary: email subject format string.

– %attach: a list of elements to attach.

– text, double colon (::) and the list of comma-separated elements.

Elements can be:

– problem directory element names, which get formatted as

 <element_name>: <contents>

 or

 <element_name>:

 :<contents>

 :<contents>

 :<contents>

– problem directory element names prefixed by "%bare_",

 which is formatted as-is, without "<element_name>:" and colons

– %oneline, %multiline, %text wildcards, which select all corresponding

 elements for output or attachment

– %binary wildcard, valid only for %attach section, instructs to attach

 binary elements

– problem directory element names prefixed by "-",

 which excludes given element from all wildcards

Nonexistent elements are silently ignored.

If none of elements exists, the section will not be created.

Integration with ABRT events

reporter-mailx can be used as a reporter, to allow users report problems via email when they decide to do it. This usage is pre-configured in /etc/libreport/events.d/mailx_event.conf:

EVENT=report_Mailx reporter-mailx

It can also be used to notify administrator automatically when a problem happens. When this is desired, modify the event configuration file to run the tool on the post-create event:

EVENT=post-create reporter-mailx

Options

-d DIR

Path to problem directory.

-c CONFFILE

Path to configuration file. When used in ABRT event system, the file contains site-wide configuration. Users can change the values via environment variables.

-F CONF_FORMAT_FILE Formatting file for an email.

Environment Variables

Environment variables take precedence over values provided in the configuration file.

Mailx_Subject

Subject of the email message.

Mailx_EmailFrom

Sender of the email message.

Mailx_EmailTo

Recipient of the email message. If nor the environment variable nor the corresponding option is defined, the message is send to "root [at] localhost".

Mailx_SendBinaryData

Use yes/true/on/1 to attach all binary files from the problem directory to the email.

Files

/usr/share/libreport/conf.d/plugins/mailx.conf

Readonly default configuration files.

/etc/libreport/plugins/mailx.conf

Configuration files.

Authors

• ABRT team

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