Re: /bin/mail replacement (next generation of mailx)

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seth vidal wrote:

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?

There is an upstream's recommendation to use in scripts (including cron jobs) as "MAILRC=/dev/null mailx", whereas now it is jist "mail". I don't know whether it is for corner cases or it is an actual issue. Perhaps we should look how Suse and Slackware package this (btw, Suse had switched for a long time).

Anyway, we can implement /bin/mail and /usr/bin/Mail as wrappers (or patch the mailx to differ its behaviour depending on how it was called)...


~buc
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy

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