/bin/mail replacement (next generation of mailx)

[Dmitry Butskoy]

Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> 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).

BTW, the current "mail" already reads ~/.mailrc and, depending on "-n", 
/etc/mail.rc . Mailx-12.x will do the same (it explains why Suse does 
not use any wrappers etc.). IOW, nothing worse.


~buc
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