ampersand in email address

[Pete Dewell]

Have you tried defining a $USERx$ entry in resource.cfg and using that 
as the $CONTACTEMAIL$ entry?

I have found that this is a useful way of allowing Un*x metacharacters 
in Nagios configs.

eg:-

in resource.cfg. define

$USER1$='one&two at domain.com'

Then use $USER1$ as the contact email address.

P

Assaf Flatto wrote:
> Kyle O'Donnell wrote:
>> 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 <nagios at flatto.net>
>> 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\&dragon at hiddeenlair.com  (dormant esc ampersend dragon at 
>>> hiddenlair dot com )
>>>     
> Can you show us the command for sending the email and the contact 
> definitions ?
> 
> 

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pete at stuff-done.co.uk


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