On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 00:03 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > This is something that I have no knowledge. > It was a surprise to me too!
> Could you see the "source" format of the mail? I can't think anything > except it being in HTML format, as there is no AFAIK no other formats > for "rich text" in email. > I didn't keep any examples, but from memory the headers set the content to base64 and the body was a single base64 block. Normally the body is not MIME - its simply a plain ASCII body. During the backup I accumulate the report in a temp file and right at the end I cat it to stdout. > Maybe sendmail (was it really sendmail?) can convert when it sees ANSI > or something codes in the data.. > AFAIK its just postfix.sendmail. I suppose its possible that crond does the encoding internally, but that's not mentioned in its manpage. Martin
