Hello Martin. Martin T wrote in <CAJx5YvHz9-sxNobMHSePqgFZS0pSN==j0Nt_+sodCSpbO=h5JQ@m\ ail.gmail.com>: |I'm using an apt-listchanges tool which extracts the Debian package |changelog and NEWS files during the installation of a new version of a |package. This information is sent to e-mail in apt-listchanges |apt_listchanges.py script like this: | |try: | subprocess.run(['/usr/sbin/sendmail', '-oi', '-t'], |input=message.as_bytes(), check=True) | |As I want to use mail/mailx with remote MTA(smtp.gmail.com) instead of |sendmail and I would like to avoid modifying the apt_listchanges.py |script, then I made a following simple wrapper: | |$ cat /usr/sbin/sendmail |#!/usr/bin/env bash | |/usr/bin/mailx -vvv -t |$ | |It works fine except some headers like "Auto-Submitted:" or |"MIME-Version:" are unknown for mailx and ignored, but most |importantly, the "Subject:" field is quoted-printable(?) encoded:
It seems you feed in readily prepared MIME mails. This is unfortunately not yet supported, the software has historically grown to use two distinct execution paths, and the -t (and -m) one cannot, sorry. It is part of the v15 rewrite to change this. I can add your name to the persons to be credited for this feature by then. :( You could possibly find satisfaction with DMA (DragonFly Mail Agent), a very small MTA with send queue which can send to smart hosts (e.g., GMail)with send queue. Or with MSMTP, it now also seems to have a queue. (I have never used the latter. The former i use actively on my work machine for years.) With this MUA all you could do today is to save the message in a file, and then either `forward' or `resend' the message to the desired location. For this the file needs a so-called From_ line, because S-nail want to open a MBOX file, now a raw message: #!/bin/sh - [email protected] tf=`mktemp` trap "rm \"$tf\"" EXIT { echo 'From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Oct 2 01:50:07 1996' cat } >> "$tf" printf 'resend %s\n' "$TARGET" | s-nail -#Rf -d "$tf" |READ 63 bytes <Subject: =?utf-8?q?apt-listchanges=3A_changelogs_for_vps?=> | |..and Gmail shows the literal |"=?utf-8?q?apt-listchanges=3A_changelogs_for_vps?=" string as an |e-mail subject. Is this my mailx configuration mistake? Or the mailx |itself behaves incorrectly? Or is it indeed the Gmail which does not |understand, that it should decode this subject? | |I would happily simply override the "Subject:" header value with "-s", |but I guess this is not possible because manual says that "If a |message subject is specified via ‘Subject:’ then it will be used in |favour of one given on the command line." No, i am sorry. This code path just does not know anything about readily prepared mail messages, it assumes a plain text body and optionally supports some (raw, plain text) header fields. And unfortunately the underlaying problem is deep in the design. Having said that, i have never tried mutt and its -x mode, maybe that can also what you are looking for. This little MUA here will need at least two more years until we get there. Sorry! And Ciao! from Germany, --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
