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Date:      Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:22:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mike Heffner <mheffner@novacoxmail.com>
To:        Munehiro Matsuda <haro@h4.dion.ne.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: linking mail to mailx
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20011227132232.mheffner@novacoxmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011228003028I.haro@h4.dion.ne.jp>

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On 27-Dec-2001 Munehiro Matsuda wrote:
| From: Mike Heffner <mheffner@novacoxmail.com>
| Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 01:46:31 -0500 (EST)
|::Does anyone have any objections to linking mail to mailx? While our
|::mail(1) is not 100% compliant to POSIX mailx requirements, it has
|::support
|::for a large portion of the required options and I'm in the process of
|::implementing the rest of the required options. Currently, both OpenBSD
|::and
|::NetBSD install mail as mailx as well.
|::
|::Thanks,
|::
|::Mike
| 
| Hello Mike, 
| 
| How different from ports/mail/mailx?
| I thought ports/mail/mailx was also based on BSD mail command.
| 


The mail/mailx port appears to be a subset of the -current version of
mail(1). I think the mailx port added some options for specifying bcc
addresses and added some tilde escapes, but these have since been added to
-current mail(1)


Mike

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  Mike Heffner     <mheffner@[acm.]vt.edu>
  Fredericksburg, VA   <mikeh@FreeBSD.org>


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