topic Re: mailx truncate line exceed tot characters in Operating System - Linux

mailx truncate line exceed tot characters

Alessio Solouki — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:50:53 GMT

I can't send send mail with line with length of 3000 characters, this line are truncated...
I use the command:

cat file|mailx -s "subject" name@domain.com

Why? It's possibile change some parameters in mailx.rc or sendmail.cf for increasing max characters for line?

Thanks!

Re: mailx truncate line exceed tot characters

itai weisman — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:53:52 GMT

do you have the same problem when using
# mailx -s "subject" name@domain.com < file

?

Re: mailx truncate line exceed tot characters

Alessio Solouki — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:00:58 GMT

Yes, is the same...

Re: mailx truncate line exceed tot characters

Peter Godron — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:31:18 GMT

Alessio,
you are sending > 3000 char on ONE line ?
How did you create the data ?
Are you sure it is not your editor truncating?
Have you tried creating a 3000 char single line file and sending it; how big is the file when you receive it? If it is 3000 char , then all the data was sent.

Re: mailx truncate line exceed tot characters

Alessio Solouki — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:38:39 GMT

>Alessio,
>you are sending > 3000 char on ONE line ?
Yes

>How did you create the data ?
Java log read from OV Operation

>Are you sure it is not your editor >truncating?
Which editor? No no, OV Operation pass the line to my script that send it with mailx...

>Have you tried creating a 3000 char single >line file and sending it; how big is the >file when you receive it? If it is 3000 >char , then all the data was sent.
Yes I've tried, ma file contains one lineof 3000 char but I receive a mail with only 2000 char approximately

Re: mailx truncate line exceed tot characters

Peter Godron — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 03:15:48 GMT

Alessio,
if there are no control characters forcing termination, all I can think of is that the
MAXLINE identifier in conf.h for smtp is set.

See your sendmail code directory.
"#define MAXLINE 2048 /* max line length */"

Re: mailx truncate line exceed tot characters

Dennis Handly — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:41:56 GMT

I suppose you could shar -Z the file, mail that then unshar it.

Re: mailx truncate line exceed tot characters

OldSchool — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:35:44 GMT

Use "fold" to break the line at whitespace.

cat file | fold -s -w 80 | mailx.......

Will break the file into lines of no more than 80 character per line. The breaks will occur at whitespace between words.

"man fold" for other options and details

good luck...scott

Re: mailx truncate line exceed tot characters

Bill Hassell — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:34:45 GMT

email is used for a LOT of files for which it was never designed. For binary files, you must encapsulate the file with shar but for extremely long line files from JavaJunk, you'll need to fold the line or better yet, use adjust as in:

adjust -m78 JavaLogFile | mailx -s "Java log" name@machine.com

adjust is particularly nice as it folds the line at the nearest breakpoint (ie, space or tab).