Sorry for the delay,

I've been out of the office.

I'll take a closer look at this patch some time this week.

Pat

On 10/30/2012 07:46 AM, Andrew Schretter wrote:
> On 10/29/2012 08:08 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:
>> On 27/10/2012 1:36 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:
>>> On 27/10/2012 10:58 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
>>>>> Content-Type: application/octet-stream
>>>>                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>> This is somewhat odd, I'd expect this to be text/plain or something in
>>>> that direction.  But that's set based on the data the mailer receives.
>>>> If it contains some control characters or other binary bytes, it might
>>>> flip over to octet-stream.
>>>>
>>>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>>>>                                ^^^^^^
>>>> The mail is encoded as base64.  At first glance, the mail headers looks
>>>> appropriate to me.  Which makes me wonder what kind of mail client you
>>>> use?
> The problem is caused by bad RPMs that write out text during install/update/etc
> and that text happens to contain non printable ASCII characters (like a carriage
> return character or some garbage like that).  The mail program on linux sees
> these characters and automatically converts the mail to base64 before sending
> it.
>
> The patch I have to fix it is to put a " /usr/bin/tr -cd '\11\12\40-\176' " to
> filter the yum response before it is mailed.  Works for me :
>
> --- /etc/cron.daily/yum-autoupdate.bak  2012-09-10 10:25:37.000000000 -0400
> +++ /etc/cron.daily/yum-autoupdate      2012-09-25 14:55:11.535869852 -0400
> @@ -322,7 +323,7 @@
>                                                          echo " Mail Needs To Be Sent"
>                                                          echo "  /bin/mail -s \"YUM:$HOSTNAME:$TODAY\" $MAILLIST "
>                                                  fi
> -                                               cat $TEMPMAILFILE | /bin/mail -s "YUM:$HOSTNAME:$TODAY" $MAILLIST
> +                                               cat $TEMPMAILFILE | /usr/bin/tr -cd '\11\12\40-\176' | /bin/mail -s
> "YUM:$HOSTNAME:$TODAY" $MAILLIST
>                                          fi
>                                  else
>                                          if [ "$DEBUG" = "true" ] ; then
> @@ -330,7 +331,7 @@
>                                                  echo "   Mail Needs To Be Sent"
>                                                  echo "    /bin/mail -s \"YUM:$HOSTNAME:$TODAY\" $MAILLIST "
>                                          fi
> -                                       cat $TEMPMAILFILE | /bin/mail -s "YUM:$HOSTNAME:$TODAY" $MAILLIST
> +                                       cat $TEMPMAILFILE | /usr/bin/tr -cd '\11\12\40-\176' | /bin/mail -s
> "YUM:$HOSTNAME:$TODAY" $MAILLIST
>                                  fi
>                          fi
>                  fi
>


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Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer