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Re: mail, just doesn't seem to work for me!


From: Sam Roberts
Subject: Re: mail, just doesn't seem to work for me!
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:20:27 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.16i

I guess I am out of date, somehow. Argh.

I'm sure I've done a cvs up, an autogen.sh/configure, and a make.
I don't have total confidence that has really brought everything
up to date, though, I'll do a maintainer-clean again. It's a 25 minute
build, I'll get back to you when I'm done.

Sam

Quoting Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden>, who wrote:
> > $ mail --file=imap://localhost -H
> > sendmail="sendmail:/usr/ucb/sendmail"
> > sendmail="sendmail:/usr/ucb/sendmail"
> > sendmail="sendmail:/usr/ucb/sendmail"
> > source requires an argument
> 
> Are you sure your sources are in sync with the repository? Try to
> do cvs update. I've experienced the same problems with argcv.c
> version 1.9. Or, possibly some of your objects are not updated again.
> The strange messages are due to the fact that "set something"
> statements, executed at the beginning of mail.c:main are interpreted
> as "set" and cause printing of the current environment. The
> 
> > source requires an argument
> 
> is produced by line mail.c:287, and is again due to the fact that
> the "source .mailrc" statement was misinterpreted as "source", which
> is a syntax error.
> 
> Regards,
> Sergey

-- 
Sam Roberts <address@hidden> (Vivez sans temps mort!)



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