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Re: mail, just doesn't seem to work for me!


From: Sergey Poznyakoff
Subject: Re: mail, just doesn't seem to work for me!
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 17:39:42 +0200

> $ mail -f imap://localhost -H

Sam, -f switch takes an optional argument, therefore it must be used
without intervening whitespace, like this:

$ mail -fimap://localhost -H

Similarly, if the long form is used, the use of equal sign
is obligatory (again, no intervening whitespace):

$ mail --file=imap://localhost --headers

In your invocation, imap://localhost was interpreted as an argument of
its own, after rearranging the options (what argp actually saw was
{"-f", "-H", "imap://localhost", NULL}).

Sadly, this option always causes confusion. Maybe we'd better make
the argument obligatory and thus simplify the things?

Regards,
Sergey



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