On 2015-10-20 12:38, John Allen wrote:
That is in fact what is installed. Mail and mailx are symlinks to
heirloom-mailx.
True, symlinked to the same binary.
Just tried your initial command. The resulting email has the text
"message text" in the body when run as
echo "message text \r" | /usr/bin/mail -s "Server xxx - Alert" -r
f...@example.com t...@example.net
but i get the same error as you when i run the command
echo -e "message text \r" | /usr/bin/mail -s "Server xxx - Alert" -r
f...@example.com t...@example.net
mailx seems to base64 encode the message text because of the \r?
The difference between these two invocations in mail headers is:
echo without -e
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
echo with -e
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
regards
christian
