Re: CentOS9 vs. s-nail

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It is called "Quoted Printable".  There should be something in the E-Mail 
header that indicates this (Content-Transfer-Encoding header).  Maybe either 
Logwatch or s-nail is leaving out this header.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable

At Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:50:37 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> =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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