Re: CentOS9 vs. s-nail

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=20 is an ASCII space character, and =3D is an ascii "=" (equal) sign.

I've seen various emailed documents that mangle them as you see, but if I
ever knew the cause, my tired old brain no longer remembers.

Fred

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 2:42 PM Bill Gee <bgee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Now that I have a test CentOS9 system set up, I am trying to get it to
> send me logwatch reports via email.  S-nail is proving very frustrating.
>   It almost works ...  But not quite!
>
> The main problem is bogus characters in the logwatch report.  Here is a
> section of the report I get through email:
>
>
> ==================
> =20
>   ################### Logwatch 7.5.5 (01/22/21) ####################=20
>          Processing Initiated: Thu Jan 19 13:31:57 2023
>          Date Range Processed: yesterday
>                                ( 2023-Jan-18 )
>                                Period is day.
>          Detail Level of Output: 5
>          Type of Output/Format: email / text
>          Logfiles for Host: centos7.billgee.local
>   ##################################################################=20
> =20
>   --------------------- Kernel Audit Begin ------------------------=20
>
>    Number of audit daemon starts: 1=20
> =20
>   **Unmatched Entries**
>      audit: type=3D1403 audit(1674073255.247:3): auid=3D4294967295
> ses=3D429=
> 4967295 lsm=3Dselinux res=3D1: 1 Time(s)
>      auditd[517]: audit dispatcher initialized with q_depth=3D1200 and 1
> act=
> ive plugins: 1 Time(s)
> =20
>   ---------------------- Kernel Audit End -------------------------=20
>
> =20
>   --------------------- Chrony report Begin ------------------------=20
>
>   MS Name/IP address         Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample
>     =
>      =20
>   =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
>
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
>
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>   ^* server3.17.168.192.IN-AD>     4   6   377    42    -16us[  -23us] ± 9=
> 716us
>   Name/IP Address            NP  NR  Span  Frequency  Freq Skew  Offset
> Std=
>   Dev
> ================================
>
> What are all those =20 and =30 strings for?  How do I make them go away?
>
> I have been experimenting with a line in /etc/s-nail.rc.
>
>         set ttycharset=utf-8
>
> That is the only value for this that produces anything useful.  If I set
> it to charset-7bit or charset-8bit, then s-nail complains about invalid
> syntax on the "set mta=" line.  What????
>
> I just don't get it.  Can someone shed some light on this?
>
> For what it is worth, a test CentOS8 system using mailx (the REAL
> mailx!) works perfectly.  So do all of my CentOS7 and Fedora systems.
>
> --
> ===============
> Bill Gee
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