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has caused the Debian Bug report #470608,
regarding wrong charset in logcheck mail (charset=unknown-8bit)
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Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.63
Severity: normal
Part of the header:
From: logcheck system account <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:02:04 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups
ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-2 A simple mail user agent
ii cron 3.0pl1-103 management of regular background p
ii exim4 4.69-2 meta-package to ease Exim MTA (v4)
ii exim4-daemon-light 4.69-2 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii lockfile-progs 0.1.11 Programs for locking and unlocking
ii logtail 1.2.63 Print log file lines that have not
ii mailx 1:20071201-2 Transitional package for mailx ren
ii syslog-ng [system- 2.0.8~1-1 Next generation logging daemon
Versions of packages logcheck recommends:
ii logcheck-database 1.2.63 database of system log rules for t
-- no debconf information
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On Sun, 12 May 2024 15:53:40 +0100 Richard Lewis
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 May 2020 17:12:42 -0700 Wade Richards <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This is regarding Debian bug #47608 "wrong charset in logcheck mail
> > (charset=unknown-8bit)"
> >
> >
> > The maintainer has closed this bug as 'wontfix', but if an end-user is
> > looking for a work-around, you can add the following to your
> > /etc/logcheck.conf file
> >
> >
> > # Additional args to mime-construct for sending email
> >
> > MIMECONSTRUCTARGS="$MINECONSTRUCTARGS --type 'text/plain;
> > charset=UTF-8'"
> >
> >
> > It's an undocumented option, so it may stop working with a future
> > version of logcheck, but it works for now.
>
> logcheck also has an option 'MIMEENCODING=' does that solve this issue?
a year later, closing as this no longer seems to be a problem: If
there is still a problem, please reopen with the details
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