[bug-mailutils] Status of the last bug reports.

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Jordi,

Here's a short summary regarding the latest two bug reports:

* address@hidden: Bug#205613]

> [GNU mail] 1. Prompts for Cc before Subject
> [mailx]    2. Prompts for Cc before message

Fixed. Now that depends on the setting of `mailx' variable. When set,
the standard mailx behavior (2) is emulated. By default mail behaves
as in (1).

> 3. Does not end message with '.' on a line by itself (only EOF)

That's the default behavior. It could be changed by altering
the variables `dot' and `ignoreeof'.

> 4. Interrupt at first prompt goes to second prompt, which must then be
     interrupted twice in order to exit (mailx exits after two
     interrupts)

I didn't get quite the same behavior with the version of mailx I have
(the one from Slackware 8.1). Here's what I had:

With mailx from Slackware 8.1:
address@hidden:~$ mailx address@hidden
Subject:   <-- Pressing Ctrl-C

<-- Ctrl-C again
(Interrupt -- one more to kill letter)
<-- Ctrl-C again
address@hidden:~$

With GNU mail (CVS snapshot):

Mirddin:$ mail address@hidden
Subject: <-- Ctrl-C *twice* --> (Interrupt -- one more to kill letter)
<-- Ctrl-C again
Mirddin:$

In other words, the main difference was the absence of a newline after
pressing the first Ctrl-C. I've fixed it.
     
> 5. Exits nonzero when interrupted, mailx exits zero

Fixed: when `mailx' is set, mail exits with zero status no matter what the
result of the send command was.

* address@hidden: Bug#205828]

Fixed.

Waiting for more bugs :^)

Regards,
Sergey