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Old 27th July 2008
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Default Properly sending dmesg to dmesg@

I recently sent my dmesg to dmesg@ and it looks like I missed part of the FAQ for sending via a different email client . It was text-formatted at least, so I managed to get 1/4 correct. Here are the rules from the FAQ that I missed and would like to fix for the next time:
  • Turn off any forced line break feature. Many email clients are configured to insert line breaks at 72 columns (the norm for mailing lists).
  • Make sure your email client does not reformat messages into "text-flow" nonsense.
  • Do not send the dmesg output as file attachment. Put the dmesg output into the body of the message.
I looked around in my email client's settings (Evolution 2.22.3.1) that I used to send from another box. I can't find any option to remove the breaks at line 72 and even found some post on a mailing list suggesting that this was a hard-coded value that could not be changed. I have no idea what "text-flow" means. Lastly, I did attach the dmesg, which in this case might be better as it was not wrapped. I believe fixing the line wrapping would make adding the dmesg inline work properly.

Is it possible to disable wrapping in Evolution? Can anyone confirm that just sending an email as plain text from Gmail.com works properly? If not, what email client should I be using?
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Did you try mail(1)? You can't get much simpler than that and it's what the FAQ recommends...
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Did you try mail(1)? You can't get much simpler than that and it's what the FAQ recommends...
I did not because I thought I needed to send it from a working address. Should I just include my email address in the message body and send it from the openbsd box?

The part of the FAQ that prompted me to go this route: "Make sure you send email from an account that is able to also receive email ..."

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I just tried the other suggested method of sending the email to my other address with "dmesg | mail your-account@yourmail.dom" and it did not work. Yes, I changed the address . It doesn't look like Gmail accepts messages from unroutable boxen.
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It does work, but it will not work from a non-root account... it isn't send immediately either, there is a ~6 minute queue period.

Look in /var/log/maillog, you'll see a line right after you send the mail with mail(1), few minutes later it will relay it to your mail account.

Sending the email directly from your OpenBSD box may not be a good idea, send it to that mail account then forward it... but if you absolutely had to, setting a "Reply-To:" header might at least allow the developers to contact you.

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It does work, but it will not work from a non-root account... it isn't send immediately either, there is a ~6 minute queue period.

Look in /var/log/maillog, you'll see a line right after you send the mail with mail(1), few minutes later it will relay it to your mail account.

Sending the email directly from your OpenBSD box may not be a good idea, send it to that mail account then forward it... but if you absolutely had to, setting a "Reply-To:" header might at least allow the developers to contact you.
Thanks. I did see the messages sitting in the queue, but it looks like it just had a problem delivering them. Now I at least know what to do for next time.
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