[Logcheck-devel] Bug#542781: MAILARGS -a breaks mailing with mailx or mutt

[Frédéric Brière]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:03:20PM +0200, Florian Hinzmann wrote:
> This is due to 
> > MAILARGS="-a 'Auto-Submitted: auto-generated'"
> in /usr/sbin/logcheck. 

Damned if you do, damned it you don't, right Martin?  :)

> Option -a wants to attach a file to the mail with at least the
> MUAs mutt and mailx from package heirloom-mailx. 

mutt doesn't provide /usr/bin/mail, so it's irrelevant.  But yeah,
heirloom-mailx is a bother.  (You would've thought that all mailxes
would have the same command-line interface, no?)

> A real fix might be to use the sendmail binary to send mails. The
> following works:
> > echo -e "Subject: sub\nX-Test: myheader\n\nmail body\n" | sendmail butch

Note to self: echo -e is a bashism, so you might want to use /bin/echo
instead.

Another option would be to strictly depend on, say, bsd-mailx.  It's a
crappy solution, but it is an easy one.


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