problems with "mail"

[Jordi Mallach]

Hi!

Finally we got a new mailutils snapshot from Jeff (hi Jeff ;) and while
it fixes the "mail won't send any mail at all" bug, it doesn't make this
command quite usable yet.

Issues:

mailx compat:
In mailx's `mail`, you can end the data part of a message using
<br>.<br> or ^D in a new line. In mailutils, the "." method doesn't
appear to work. It confused me a little at the beginning.

reading mail:
In short, I haven't been able.
While mailx would show my mail in /var/mail/jordi just invoking it with
"mail", mailutils seems to only look after ~/mbox by default.
If I use the -f switch, it completely ignores it:
65563:address@hidden:~$ mail -f /var/mail/jordi
mail (mailutils) 0.0.9c, Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
mail is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
Send bug reports to <address@hidden>.
Cc: 
etc, trying to send a mail with no To:.

--file won't work either:
65565:address@hidden:~$ mail --file=/var/mail/jordi 
mail (mailutils) 0.0.9c, Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
mail is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
Send bug reports to <address@hidden>.
Can not read mailbox

There's also Debian Bug#139678, which says that the -m long option name
"--maildir", is confusing. I agree. I wish the option was called
--mailspool or --spooldir or whatever, so it doens't clash with the
Maildir format.

Thanks,
Jordi
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