Alerts with x-priority

[Daniel Rich]

Dick Moore wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I want to modify the host-notify-by-email command such that it gives the email a high priority using the x-priority (yep I know its not rfc complient but my boss really wants it)
> 
> I have been fumbling around trying to do this without sucess and wandered if anyone out there had done this. 
> 
> The idea is that we only forward high priority alerts to blackberry wireless pagers via exchange (wash my mouth out with soap and water)
> 
> Any help greatfully accepted

I just tried this on my machine, so you should be able to do it by calling 
sendmail directly instead of using /bin/mail.  That will allow you to set the 
headers.

For example:

define command{
         command_name    notify-by-email
         command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "To: $CONTACTEMAIL$\nSubject: ** 
$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ 
**\nX-Priority: 1 (Highest)\n\n***** Nagios 1.0 *****\n\nNotification Type: 
$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$ 
($HOSTNAME$)\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: 
$DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$\n\nSee http://netmon.pdi.com/nagios/ 
for more information." | /usr/lib/sendmail -t
         }

BTW, all headers starting with X- are RFC compliant, they just aren't "official".

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