/bin/mail replacement (next generation of mailx)
Dmitry Butskoy
buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
Wed Jun 11 15:02:12 UTC 2008
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
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