> From: Magnus Larsson <k.magnus.lars...@tele2.se> > To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org > Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 14:00:34 +0100 > Subject: [blfs-support] Problem with Swedish umlauts in mailx/postfix > > Hello blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org > > I have installed Postfix 2.11.0 and mailx-12.4. > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/server/postfix.html > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/basicnet/mailx.html > > Problem: I can not send email using mailx (mail) if I have Swedish umlauts > (åäö etc) in > the message body. Mailx fails after I press ctrl-D to send. > > magnus@lfs ~> mail magnus
Just to be on safe side for debugging, invoke the program as 'mailx' instead of 'mail'. Sometimes programs behave differently when invoked via different names. I don't recall such issues with mail->mailx: but to be on safe side for debugging, use 'mailx' . Also, do you get the same result if you just run 'mailx' - i.e. not 'mailx magnus' - at the bash shell prompt, and then when inside mailx, at the mailx prompt, you do 'm magnus' (without the quotes), and send the test message(s) that way? > Subject: test1 > åäö > EOT > Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character > "/home/magnus/dead.letter" 1/4 > . . . message not sent. > magnus@lfs ~> Do 'set verbose' & 'set sendwait' either at prompt in mailx, or in '~/.mailrc', to see more detail of the attempted-sending process. > > Everything is fine if I skip umlauts. > > magnus@lfs ~> mail magnus > Subject: test > This is a test. > EOT > magnus@lfs ~> mail > Heirloom mailx version 12.4 7/29/08. Type ? for help. > "/var/mail/magnus": 1 message 1 new > >N 1 mag...@mail.lfs.lo Sun Feb 23 13:41 18/574 test > ? > Message 1: > From mag...@mail.lfs.local Sun Feb 23 13:41:26 2014 > Return-Path: <mag...@mail.lfs.local> > X-Original-To: magnus > Delivered-To: mag...@mail.lfs.local > Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 13:41:26 +0100 > To: mag...@mail.lfs.local > Subject: test > User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > From: mag...@mail.lfs.local > Status: R > > This is a test. > > ? > At EOF > > I have tried to modify /etc/nail.rc, ~/.mailrc and ~/.nailrc and add: > set ttycharset=utf-8, but it does not help. > When you are in mailx, and do 'set' at the prompt , what does it show for the 'sendcharsets' & 'ttycharset' variables; and does it show 'print-all-chars' present in the output? > I have also tried export LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 in bash shell, and other > variants, > but no change. > > I have noticed the "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii" in the > non-umlaut test. > However I can not change it. > > The rest of the LFS/BLFS system I have handle umlauts well, i.e. Bash shell, > vim, > KDE Konsole, Kmail, Kate etc. > > How to configure mailx and postfix to handle umlauts? > Only really use sendmail here, & not postfix, 'fraid; but do use mailx. (( What you describe sounds similar to an an old issue - mostly affecting attachments and non-interactive mode - that was fixed in version 12.4 (which is what is in blfs-7.4 and is what you have): ---- Bug Report: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.nail.devel/1289 Ref the two attributions to 'Hilko Bengen' in the Changelog, at: http://nail.cvs.sourceforge.net/nail/nail/ChangeLog?view=markup ---- According to that, it should try '"application/octet-stream" content type instead', for the situations described. )) rgds, akh > Best regards, > > Magnus -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
