only first set mail-format { subject: blabla } is working

[Former user]

I'm trying to set the subject in emails for different alerts, but only the first appearance of "subject:" will be used!

[Tildeslash]

The "set mail-format" sets the global format - there is just one format, not many.

If you need to override the format for some alerts, you can override it locally like this:

 check process apache with pidfile /var/run/httpd.pid
    start = "/etc/init.d/httpd start"
    stop  = "/etc/init.d/httpd stop"
    alert admin@bar on {nonexist, timeout}
      with mail-format {
          from:     bofh@$HOST
          subject:  apache $EVENT - $ACTION
          message:  This event occurred on $HOST at $DATE.
          Your faithful employee,
          monit
      }