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  • 1.  Emails as attachment CA Spectrum 10.1.1 Linux

    Posted Aug 29, 2016 03:18 PM

    Hi, I have just upgraded to  CA Spectrum 10.1.1 Linux OS.  I am having an issue with my email messages coming in as an attachment "ATT00001.bin".  I have my notifier setscrip to use "mail"  entry.   My exchange folks have pointed out to me that it is the encoder method Spectrum is using.  Any ideas where to see this input?



  • 2.  Re: Emails as attachment CA Spectrum 10.1.1 Linux

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Aug 30, 2016 08:48 AM

    I found the following link online that may be the cause of the issue:

    mailx sends text body as an attachment - Red Hat Customer Portal 

     

    Seems to be an issue with non-US-ASCII or non-printable characters.

     

    Mailx expects input text to be in Unix format, with lines separated by newline (^J, \n) characters only.     Non-Unix text files that use carriage return (^M, \r) characters in addition will be treated as binary data; to send such files as text, strip these characters e. g. by    tr -d ’\015’ <input | mailx . . .    or fix the tools that generate them.

    Alternatively dos2unix can be used to strip the \r character. Similarly, if any other non-US-ASCII or non-printable characters are present, strip or convert them before passing the text to mailx.


  • 3.  Re: Emails as attachment CA Spectrum 10.1.1 Linux
    Best Answer

    Posted Sep 07, 2016 02:14 PM

    Turns out I needed to apply "mutt" to my set and clear scripts.