Re: {bb} Email-Notification with attachment instead of text

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 12:14 +0200, Katharina Wolkwitz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a problem with the email-notification my BigBrother-Server 1.9i is
> sending to me. The mail header looks normal but in the mail body there is no
> text and there is an attachment identified by my Thunderbird as
> application/octet-stream.
> 
> When I open the attachement with an editor, it turns out to be more or less
> normal text with some characters which the editor (edit plus in my case) isn't
> able to display properly (it only show little squares).
> 
> Here's an example:

---8<----(Snippety-snip)----8<----

> 
> Does anybody have an idea how to get BigBrother to send the notification just as
> text in the body of the mail?

This is probably a more meaningful thread:

  http://support.bb4.com/archive/200509/msg00117.html

although my knee-jerk "blame exchange" reaction was wide of the mark.
The executive summary is that your local Mail User Agent (most probably
"nail" pretending to be something else) is most likely be treating the
data as binary. Your options include:

1. Hack the source to give the MUA what it wants.
2. Hack the scripts to translate to what the MUA wants.
3. Call the MUA with different options (if available) so
   that it is better behaved.
4. Change MUA and use an alternative which plays nice with
   BB.


Cheers, Phil.



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