Logcheck devel - Mar 2008 - Bug#470608: wrong charset in logcheck mail (charset=unknown-8bit)

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.63
Severity: normal


Part of the header:

From: logcheck system account <logcheck at nsn.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:02:04 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser            3.105                 add and remove users and groups
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-2 A simple mail user agent
ii  cron               3.0pl1-103            management of regular background p
ii  exim4              4.69-2                meta-package to ease Exim MTA (v4)
ii  exim4-daemon-light 4.69-2                lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  lockfile-progs     0.1.11                Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logtail            1.2.63                Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx              1:20071201-2          Transitional package for mailx ren
ii  syslog-ng [system- 2.0.8~1-1             Next generation logging daemon

Versions of packages logcheck recommends:
ii  logcheck-database             1.2.63     database of system log rules for t

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also sprach Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko.news at gmail.com>
[2008.03.12.1026 +0100]:
> From: logcheck system account <logcheck at nsn.com>
> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:02:04 +0200
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
could you prepare a patch, please?

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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:26:03AM +0200, Andrei Emeltchenko
wrote:
> Part of the header:
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit
This was either inserted by your mailer or your mail reader; logcheck
does not specify any character encoding itself.

If it did, though, unknown-8bit would probably be the only acceptable
choice.  Even if there was a way for logcheck to determine a specific
encoding for a log file (see bug #401259), it cannot possibly vouch that
whatever's in there will in fact adhere to that encoding.  (This is
especially true for encodings like UTF-8.)  There's lots of crap like
ssh usernames in there, and crackers/spammers are unlikely to abide by
your particular choice of encoding.


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