On 11/7/11 2:02 PM, Eugene Vilensky wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Francis Swasey <Frank.Swasey AT uvm DOT edu> 
> wrote:
>> The biggest issue with the version of mailx that is included in RHEL 6.x is 
>> that it arbitrarily
>> converts text into attachments if it determines that there is anything that 
>> is not printable
>> ascii included in the file.  Sadly, there is no way to disable that 
>> "feature" and I have been
>> struggling with finding the random control characters that get included so I 
>> can nuke them with
>> tr commands before mailx sees the data stream (to get it to send clear text).
> yum --localinstall didn't raise any dependency flags uninstalling
> mailx-12.4-6.el6.x86_64 and installing mailx-8.1.1-44.2.2.x86_64.rpm.
> Seems to be doing what I need it to do. :)
>
> Thanks for the tip Frank.
>


You're welcome, but I don't think I was really advocating that you install the 
version of mailx
from RHEL5 ;-)

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