Re: [bug-mailutils] opens numeric named files if MAIL is null

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

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> I discovered with mail (GNU Mailutils 1.2) if one does as an experiment
> $ cd; MAIL= mail
> and one has a file with a name like 211 there, mail will open that
> thinking it is your mailbox. Strace shows
> open("/home/jidanni//211", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 4

Yes, that is intended. Mailutils tries to determine type of the
current mailbox (which is cwd in that case), and the only hint it
gets is telling it that it could be an MH folder. 

Regards,
Sergey