Extreme OT - Thunderbird display problem.

[Glenn Steen]

On 12/02/2008, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/02/2008, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com> wrote:
> > This is real OT, so I am accepting any spears thrown my way.
> >
> > I don't know where the problem really is - Sendmail, Thunderbird, or
> > just what, so I ask here hoping others have run into this problem. It is
> > definitely not a MailScanner problem. Google hasn't helped me, nor has
> > the Thunderbird site.
> >
> > I use rkhunter to report the status of my systems every day by email.
> > The output of the reports sometimes uses the older console control
> > characters for formatting. This does not display very well on my email
> > reports, as tabs show up as "[1;32m"
> >
> > Anyone know a fix for this either in SendMail, Thunderbird or any other
> > place? I use Linux Sendmail servers and a PC with Thunderbird as a mail
> > reader. Hopefully an add-on or something?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve Campbell
> >
> The escape sequences are for colorisation of the outpu, try the
> --nocolor option for your cronjob;-).
>
> Cheers
... --nocolors ... Pesky keyboard... But the --cronjob flag should
make it skip the colors anyway...

Cheers
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