On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:54:17 +0200, Malte Forkel wrote: > I'm using anacron for some tasks on a machine running Lenny. Error > output from those jobs send by email looks strange in Thunderbird.
"Anacron" or "cron"? It seems they are two different packages :-? > Mails send by cron supposedly respect the locale and include a content > type header, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405335 > (cron does not send mail with good encoding) and > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=410057 (cron should > send email with UTF-8 charset as it's default in Etch). Those bug reports are for "cron" and should be already fixed. > But mail from anacron seems to be lacking the proper header (something > like Content/type: text/html; charset=utf-8) and therefor looks strange > in Thunderbird until I force it to use the UTF-8 encoding? > > Should my analysis be correct, how can I get anacron to add the proper > header? Mmm, can you upload a sample of the e-mail you are getting so we can take a look into the header? Of course, the e-mail sample should not contain private data :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

