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Re: [bug-mailutils] address@hidden: Bug#205613: Gratuitous finger-macro
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Jordi Mallach |
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Re: [bug-mailutils] address@hidden: Bug#205613: Gratuitous finger-macro incompatibility in mail/mailx] |
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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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