Native Apprise Configuration: Send log outputs as part of the notification body does not work

[beckenc]

Hi all,

I've tried to send borgmatic log outputs within the apprise email body, but it does not work somehow. I just get emails with a body with plain $(cat /tmp/backup_run.log) text in it (/tmp/backup_run.log does exist and is not empty). Looks like the shell command is not interpreted. Did I miss something?

I use the borgmatic docker image (ghcr.io/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic).
borgmatic:/# borgmatic --version 1.8.5

My apprise configuration looks like this:

services:
    - url: *******
      label: mail

finish:
    title: ✅ SUCCESS
    body: $(cat /tmp/backup_run.log)

states:
    - finish

[witten]

Thanks for filing this! Unfortunately the borgmatic Apprise hook doesn't currently support sending borgmatic logs to Apprise, nor does it support command execution to populate body! If you're getting that configuration from here, I don't believe it's correct.

I think the "fix" here is probably to implement native Apprise log sending in borgmatic, similar to the existing Healthchecks hook. And also update the Docker borgmatic docs to no longer mention the non-functional body cat trick.

[witten]

FYI as of borgmatic 1.8.9 (not yet released), the Apprise hook supports sending borgmatic logs to your Apprise services and in fact will do so by default. More details here: https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/monitor-your-backups/#apprise-hook

[witten]

borgmatic 1.8.9 is now released with this support for Apprise log sending.