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Re: mail, just doesn't seem to work for me!
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Sam Roberts |
Subject: |
Re: mail, just doesn't seem to work for me! |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:55:09 -0500 |
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Oops, you're right!
But:
$ mail --file=imap://localhost -H
sendmail="sendmail:/usr/ucb/sendmail"
sendmail="sendmail:/usr/ucb/sendmail"
sendmail="sendmail:/usr/ucb/sendmail"
source requires an argument
Quoting Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden>, who wrote:
> > $ 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?
No need. I make this mistake even with my own utilities.
--
Sam Roberts <address@hidden> (Vivez sans temps mort!)
- Re: imap4d - feature request :-), (continued)
Re: imap4d - feature request :-), Sergey Poznyakoff, 2002/02/21
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- Re: imap4d - feature request :-), Sergey Poznyakoff, 2002/02/21
- Re: imap4d - feature request :-), Nic Ferrier, 2002/02/21
- Re: imap4d - feature request :-), Sergey Poznyakoff, 2002/02/22
- mail, just doesn't seem to work for me!, Sam Roberts, 2002/02/23
- Re: mail, just doesn't seem to work for me!, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2002/02/23
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- Re: mail, just doesn't seem to work for me!, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2002/02/23
- Re: mail, just doesn't seem to work for me!, Sam Roberts, 2002/02/23
- Re: mail, just doesn't seem to work for me!, Sam Roberts, 2002/02/23