On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 03:50:51PM -0600, Brian Conway wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2022, at 3:29 PM, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 02:21:41AM +0000, Tim Chase wrote: > >> According to the POSIX definitions for mail(1) & mailx(1), the > >> (s)ave command should save to "mbox" if the filename is not specified > >> > >> > Save the specified messages in the file named by the pathname > >> > file, or the mbox if the file argument is omitted > >> > >> (newer spec) > >> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/mailx.html#tag_20_75_13_33 > >> > >> > s [file] > >> > Save the message in the named file (mbox is default). > >> > >> (older spec) > >> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/mail.html#tag_001_014_1339 > >> > >> > >> > >> However, when exercising this functionality, mail(1) on OpenBSD > >> (also tested on FreeBSD where the same issue manifests[1]) doesn't > >> support this: > >> > >> demo$ echo test | mail -s "test" demo # send self a message > >> demo$ mail > >> Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help. > >> "/var/mail/demo": 1 message 1 new > >> >N 1 d...@localhost.my.do Thu Dec 15 19:34 19/775 "test" > >> & s > >> No file specified. > >> > >> While I'm not positive on the solution, I think it involves tweaking > >> the save1() function in src/usr.bin/mail/cmd2.c such that instead > >> of failing if it can't snarf(), it should set `file` to "mbox" or > >> "&" so that expand() points to the mbox as required by POSIX. > >> > >> -tkc > >> > >> [1] > >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=268402 > >> > > > > hi. > > > > currently mail(1) has these entries in FILES: > > > > FILES > > /var/mail/* post office (unless overridden > > by the MAIL environment > > variable) > > ~/mbox user's old mail > > > > isn;t it the case that openbsd uses mailboxes in /var/mail by default, > > instead of ~/mbox, as displayed? > > I believe those FILES entries are correct. A pristine install of OpenBSD will > have Theo's welcome email waiting in /var/mail/root . Running `mail`, reading > it, and then quitting (q) without any use of `s` will deposit the "user's old > mail" in /root/mbox. > > Brian >
ah. i misunderstood the meaning of "old mail", since i don;t use ~/mbox. i thought it was a compat thing. so it won;t be me who decides, but either a code change or a note describing the altered behaviour. jmc
