> 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. 
> 

But let us keep in mind that it is the client that renders the mail for us to 
see.

it must be some format the the client must understand. postfix.sendmail is not 
a client, and whatever it does must be understandable by the client.





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