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.

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