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Just a followup, that was exactly what the issue was. In the mail command was Details:\n\ n$OUTPUT$" $OUTPUT$ has html in it. With /usr/bin/printf %b and a field that has html (including "'s) we were getting extra quotes and breaking the mail command. We were ending up with this /usr/bin/p...

What if one of the macros previous to $CONTACTEMAIL$ had unescaped HTML? (which for this service they do) Quotes in there would cause this, wouldn't they?

Same here. I'm looking over the original again, and I don't see any quotes that are escaped. That would do I think, but I don't see one.

I FOUND IT! using the macro like this /usr/bin/printf "%b" "Notification:\t$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nOccurred:\t$DATETIME$\nHostname:\t$HOSTALIAS$ ($HOSTADDRESS$)\nService:\t$SERVICEDESC$\nState:\t\t$SERVICESTATE$\nDetails:\n\n $OUTPUT$" | /usr/bin/mail -s "$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$: $...

I turned on debugging with the original contact command /usr/bin/printf "%b" "Notification:\t$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nOccurred:\t$DATETIME$\nHostname:\t$HOSTALIAS$ ($HOSTADDRESS$)\nService:\t$SERVICEDESC$\nState:\t\t$SERVICESTATE$\nDetails:\n\n $OUTPUT$" | /usr/bin/mail -s "$NO...

Good morning! Yes, I did. I'm pretty darn sure I have everything configured properly. Everything works, it just doesn't send email. I set debug to -1 and found that it's telling me that the macro is failing. I'll grab a capture of that log in just a bit. Seems it rotated out over the night. Someone ...

No Joy. I updated to 3.2.3 by removing the debs, hand building it from source, and dropping my configs in.

I also removed the n in the commands config service_notification_options w,u,c,r,s,n

Still sending email to $@.

Oh, good idea. Let me try that.

Yes, and mail is working properly on this server. I'm sorry, but the focus here is not whether mail sends or not, it does. The focus is that the command works perfectly with my email hardcoded on the end of the command instead of $CONTACTEMAIL$ macro. This works, run manually or by nagios /usr/bin/p...

No typos that I am able to see.

I fixed commands.cfg back to $CONTACTEMAIL$ from my hardcoded email address, I added another contact, shut a service down and watched the mail log. Same result, it sent mail to $ @ the nagios server's host name.