bug with a cyrillic text in host alias

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Mon, 15 May 2006, Jason Martin wrote:

> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:24:35PM +0400, Danila Kutepkin wrote:
> > But, I can't undestand, why does Nagios send empty (space) symbols
> > instead of cyrillic text in Notification e-mails. For example, I have
> > a host named Host1 and some alias for it in cyrillic (KOI8). Locale of
> > nagios user is KOI8, web-interface show cyr tex correctly too, I can
> > send e-mail with cyr symbols from nagios user shell. But the e-mail,
> > thatis generated by nagios process still bad.
> Nagios pipes notifications to sendmail for sending. As a test,
> construct a text file with the some representitive characters
> and redirect it into sendmail and have it send it to you. I
> suspect that the characters are being lost by sendmail, in which
> case it is your sendmail config that would need modification.

Email headers should be 7bit clean. Using cyrilic characters violates that
and will result in a failer of the MTA. You need to encode such thing
according to the standards before you give it to sendmail (or whatever
other SMTP server).

Hugo.

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