Special Characters Cause Video Clip to be Removed from Email Notification

Affected Versions

exacqVision 7.6 and prior

Description

If a camera name contains characters that are not allowed by the file system on the server’s operating system, the attachment cannot be included in an email notification. The server’s file system prevents the attachment file from being created.

Workaround

In Windows, the following characters are NOT allowed in the name:

Less than symbol [Greater than symbol [>]
Colon [:]
Quotation mark [“]
Forward slash [/]
Backslash [\]
Vertical pipe/bar [|]
Question mark [?]
Asterisk [*]

In Linux, all bytes are allowed except NUL (‘\0’) and ‘/’.

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