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 at
centos.org> 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 at campercaver.net>
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.
> >
> > --
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