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 > -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux Developer