On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 18:28 +0400, Dmitry Butskoy wrote: > I would like to propose upgrade the "mailx" package (cmdline /bin/mail > interface) to the newer source from the Heirloom project: > http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html . The new source is derived > from the old one and is fully compatible with it. > > Such a replacement (from old bsd mailx-8.1.x to the Heirloom's > mailx-12.x) is already done in OpenSuse and Slackware. > > Initially, the project was named as "nail". Since the version of 12.x it > was renamed to the ordinary name of "mailx", (because the original > mailx-8.x no more developed). Under the name of "nail" it is already in > Fedora. I continue to maintain it as "nail", while the original > mailx-8.x is used. > > Mailx-12.x adds a lot of useful functionality to the "cmdline mail > command", which seems to be expected long years ago. Without it, some > tasks can be performed only by TUI or even GUI applications, which makes > impossible to automate things by scripts. > > My initial motivation to add nail/mailx to Fedora was inspired by the > time of switching to Dovecot IMAP server and recommendation to switch > from mailbox to Maildir format. The current /bin/mail do not work with > Maildir, hence it cannot be used for reading mail from cmdline at all > (until you still use mailbox format). Besides the Maildir support (which > looks like a strong requirement for the upgrading), there are such > features as MIME support, encodings, attachments, POP3/IMAP, direct > SMTP, SSL etc., see http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html > > Note, that SSL support can be provided either by OpenSSL or by NSS. The > use of NSS matches the recent requirements of Fedora's "Security > Consolidation". > Does the cli format break compat with mailx as we know it now? Ie: will we need to fix an arse-load of cron jobs and what not to behave? -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
