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Re: [bug-mailutils] address@hidden: Bug#205613: Gratuitous finger-macro


From: Jordi Mallach
Subject: Re: [bug-mailutils] address@hidden: Bug#205613: Gratuitous finger-macro incompatibility in mail/mailx]
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 01:54:28 +0200
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:36:30PM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > 1. Prompts for Cc before Subject
> > 2. Prompts for Cc before message
> 
> Right. Though I don't know which behavior is more logical, that of
> the standard mailx or that of mailutils...

Some weak argumentation could be that Cc is normally a less important
part of the message than Subject and the body.

> > 3. Does not end message with '.' on a line by itself (only EOF)
> This depends on the setting of `dot' variable. The same holds true
> for mailx as well. However the default values for this variable
> differs between the two implementations. I agree that they
> should rather be the same.

The Debian package has

# Use '.' to terminate composition of messages
set dot

in the default /etc/mail.rc and it doesn't work. I remember it working
some time ago, though.

> > 4. Interrupt at first prompt goes to second prompt, which must then be
> >    interrupted twice in order to exit (mailx exits after two interrupts)
> > 5. Exits nonzero when interrupted, mailx exits zero
> These two surely are bugs. I'll fix them.

Thanks!

> > there:[~] man -w mail
> > No manual entry for mail
> > See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
> Noted. We definitely need a mechanism to generate
> manpages from the texinfo or from --help output...

Yes, this is the 4th bug regarding this :(

Jordi
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