=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. > > -- > =============== > Bill Gee > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >