Re: mail works differently on debian 9 and debian 10

[Jordi Mallach]

Hi,

El dj. 12 de 03 de 2020 a les 16:43 +0200, en/na Sergey Poznyakoff va
escriure:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> > There is a working bash script on debian 9 which sends an email
> > using this command:
> > echo "Content" | mail -s "Subject" -A $PATH_TO_ATTACHMENT
> > -aFrom:Servername\<address@hidden\> 
> > address@hidden
> > 
> > The mail is working as expected and the content is used as the
> > mailbody.
> > The same command works different on debian 10. There is the content
> > not used as the mailbody but attached as the file ATT00001.txt
> 
> Debian 9 ships with mailutils 3.1 whereas Debian 10 ships with
> version
> 3.5.  What you observe is the effect of the bug 54992, introduced in
> version 3.4.  See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?54992 for
> the
> details.
> 
> The bug was fixed on 2019-12-15.  I haven't had enough time to roll
> out
> a new release since then (though I hope to do so soon), so the best
> course of action would be to recompile mailutils from Git HEAD.  Drop
> me
> a note if you need any assistance with that.

This looks like something that would get accepted by the Debian release
managers as an "high impact" bugfix for stable.

I'll look into it.

Jordi
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