/bin/mail replacement (next generation of mailx)

[Dmitry Butskoy]

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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