Hi Tiago,
I updated the patch file (can now be applied on top of commit
e457576ebbf742245ca03458b4902478d214a8c8).
Best whishes,
Matthias
diff --git a/apticron b/apticron
index f55071c..7c9cc56 100755
--- a/apticron
+++ b/apticron
@@ -4,27 +4,41 @@
# implementations in Debian. Make sure we send proper headers, and a
# text/plain content type.
Mailx() {
+ # The statement msg="$(xargs --null echo)" will fail if the generated message
+ # is very long with xargs: argument line too long.
+ msg="$(xargs --null echo)"
+ if which gpg > /dev/null ; then
+ msg=$(echo "$msg" | gpg --trust-model always --batch --armor --encrypt --recipient $EMAIL --sign --passphrase $GPG_PASS_PHRASE)
+ if [ -z "$msg" ]; then
+ echo "GnuPG error. Could not encrypt message for $EMAIL. Exiting here."
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ else
+ echo "GnuPG not installed. Exiting here."
+ exit 1
+ fi
+
local MAILER="`readlink -e /usr/bin/mailx`"
if [ x$MAILER = "x/usr/bin/heirloom-mailx" -o x$MAILER = "x/usr/bin/s-nail" ]
then
# heirloom-mailx creates correct headers, but needs help
# if the terminal charset (LC_CTYPE) is no UTF-8 locale
if [ -n "$CUSTOM_FROM" ] ; then
- /usr/bin/mailx -S ttycharset=utf-8 -r "$CUSTOM_FROM" "$@"
+ echo "$msg" | /usr/bin/mailx -S ttycharset=utf-8 -r "$CUSTOM_FROM" "$@"
else
- /usr/bin/mailx -S ttycharset=utf-8 "$@"
+ echo "$msg" | /usr/bin/mailx -S ttycharset=utf-8 "$@"
fi
else
# bsd-mailx/mailutils' mailx don't do character set
# conversion, but do not support MIME either.
if [ -n "$CUSTOM_FROM" ] ; then
- /usr/bin/mailx -a "MIME-Version: 1.0" \
+ echo "$msg" | /usr/bin/mailx -a "MIME-Version: 1.0" \
-a "Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8" \
-a "Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit" \
-a "From: $CUSTOM_FROM" \
"$@"
else
- /usr/bin/mailx -a "MIME-Version: 1.0" \
+ echo "$msg" | /usr/bin/mailx -a "MIME-Version: 1.0" \
-a "Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8" \
-a "Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit" \
"$@"
