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Re: problems with "mail"
From: |
Jordi Mallach |
Subject: |
Re: problems with "mail" |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Mar 2002 02:37:44 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:24:41PM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Could you please tell me which snapshot you are using (the last
> modification date from the ChangeLog)? It is evolving
> rather quickly :^)
It's 20020326. Jeff, if you're reading, mailutils-doc is missing the
upstream changelog.
> The 'composition-terminating' character is controlled by the boolean
> variable 'dot'. If it is set, then typing dot on a line alone
> terminates the letter. Otherwise, mail expects end-of-file
> character (C-D) to terminate the letter. So, in your case, it will
> suffice to add
>
> set dot
>
> to your /etc/mail.rc or ~/.mailrc.
Oh, cool. If it should be the default setting (mailx accepts both by
default, or maybe it's the Debian default setting), I don't know.
I've learned to be happy with EOF now, tho :)
> > In short, I haven't been able.
> > While mailx would show my mail in /var/mail/jordi just invoking it with
> > "mail", mailutils seems to only look after ~/mbox by default.
> That is, when you run mail with no arguments it opens ~/mbox, right?
> OK, I'll check it.
Yes, but I have no such file, all my mail is in /var or ~/Mail
> > If I use the -f switch, it completely ignores it:
> > 65563:address@hidden:~$ mail -f /var/mail/jordi
> This is a very frequent mistake, unfortunately. In mailutils' mail
> an argument to --file (-f) is optional, therefore it must follow
> -f option without intervening whitespace.
Oh, I see. Would it do harm to parse it with spaces between the option
and the value? It may misslead users (hey, maybe I'm just very careless
:)
> > 65565:address@hidden:~$ mail --file=3D/var/mail/jordi=20
> > Can not read mailbox
> Very alarming. I will try to reproduce the situation on my box.
> Did you use any special options when configuring the package?
Doesn't seem so.
cd $(BUILD_TREE) && ./configure --prefix=/usr \
--infodir=/usr/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc \
--mandir=/usr/share/man --with-gdbm \
--build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
I guess you've discovered that -f isn't working anyway:
65587:address@hidden:...mailutils-20020326/debian$ mail -f/var/mail/jordi
mail (mailutils) 0.0.9c, Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
mail is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
Send bug reports to <address@hidden>.
Can not read mailbox
Same error as with --file
> > There's also Debian Bug#139678, which says that the -m long option name
> > "--maildir", is confusing. I agree. I wish the option was called
> > --mailspool or --spooldir or whatever, so it doens't clash with the
> > Maildir format.
> Agreed. This is quite reasonable.
Cool :)
> Thank you.
To you all, for quick reaction :)
Jordi
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- problems with "mail", Jordi Mallach, 2002/03/26
- Re: problems with "mail", Sam Roberts, 2002/03/26
- Re: problems with "mail", Sergey Poznyakoff, 2002/03/27
- Re: problems with "mail",
Jordi Mallach <=
- Re: problems with "mail", Sergey Poznyakoff, 2002/03/28
- Re: problems with "mail", Jordi Mallach, 2002/03/28
- Re: problems with "mail", Sergey Poznyakoff, 2002/03/28
- Re: problems with "mail", Jeff Bailey, 2002/03/28
- Re: problems with "mail", Jordi Mallach, 2002/03/28
- Re: problems with "mail", Sergey Poznyakoff, 2002/03/28
Re: problems with "mail", maildir -> renamed to mailspool, Sam Roberts, 2002/03/27
Re: problems with "mail", Alain Magloire, 2002/03/28