Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 07:13:00 +0900 From: Munehiro Matsuda <haro@h4.dion.ne.jp> To: mheffner@vt.edu, mheffner@novacoxmail.com Cc: haro@h4.dion.ne.jp, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linking mail to mailx Message-ID: <20011228071300N.haro@h4.dion.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011227132232.mheffner@novacoxmail.com> References: <20011228003028I.haro@h4.dion.ne.jp> <XFMail.20011227132232.mheffner@novacoxmail.com>
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From: Mike Heffner <mheffner@novacoxmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:22:32 -0500 (EST)
::
::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)
Aah, ok. Thanks for clarifying.
# me runs off to pkg_delete-ing mailx port from my -current system... :-)
Regards,
Haro
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