[gridengine users] Characters in admin mail forcing contenttype octect-stream

[Kevin.Buckley at ecs.vuw.ac.nz]

> Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll have to look at it later, though I
> wonder if it's simplest just to strip the backspace sequences post hoc.
>
> I'm actually more interested in under what circumstances you get the
> shepherd trace in the admin mail.

Typically, it is after a job running on a machine that was powered
off, and so died, reports back :

failed before writing exit_status:shepherd exited with exit status 19:
before writing exit_status

I think this was an issue I/we raised some time ago but was never
really concluded.

However that's another issue.

Given that these mails can/do get generated, fixing the usage of a
non-printing charcacter being piped into a mail process's message
buffer, which allows that mail process to then consider the buffer
in need of a base64 encoding, as opposed to simply delivering simple
plain text ouput, which is what is wanted here, is surely worth doing
of itself and, furthermore, the proposed soultion (admittedly the
fourth iteration of the original proposal!) solves that issue.

Kevin

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