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. > > > > -- > > =============== > > Bill Gee > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services heller at deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services