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[bug-mailutils] Re: Status of the last bug reports.
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Jordi Mallach |
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[bug-mailutils] Re: Status of the last bug reports. |
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Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:23:14 +0200 |
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 05:10:28PM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Here's a short summary regarding the latest two bug reports:
Thanks!
> > [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).
Excellent. I will probably leave the MU default for Debian too.
> > 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'.
Ok, the problem was the typo.
> > 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 Debian's mailx (CVS snapshots, taken from OpenBSD, iirc):
65675:address@hidden:~$ mailx jordi
Subject: <-- press C-c
(Interrupt -- one more to kill letter)
C-c again and I'm out.
So I only need two Control-C's.
This is mailx 8.1.2-0.20030521cvs-1, just confirmed it comes from
OpenBSD, which IIRC is the only tree that is actively maintained.
> > 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.
Thanks.
> * address@hidden: Bug#205828]
> Fixed.
That was quick!
> Waiting for more bugs :^)
We have the documentation bugs ;p Other than that, I've run out of
bugs :)
Thanks for all, Sergey!
Jordi
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