Hi, Concerning compatibility between nail and mailx <http://nail.sourceforge.net> says:
Linux distributions made the situation even more
confusing. They could only use the original Berkeley
Mail (System V mailx was closed source until the
OpenSolaris release in 2005). Yet because Mail and
mailx were sufficiently similar for most applications,
it seemed appropriate for many to also feature a mailx
command which was just Mail, thus not sufficient for
formal POSIX.2 conformance. Most distributions also
made mail invoke Mail, since Unix mail was also closed
source until January 2002.
[...]
Thus it is appropriate to call nail as mailx. If it is
called as Mail, a short shell script should be created
which sets the bsdcompat variable before invoking nail.
mail however is an entirely different command and should
be taken from the Heirloom Toolchest if an Open Source
version is desired.
Given the fact that we were calling mailx as mail anyway :-), I
do not think that making nail replacement of mail would do
things any worse. :-)
So why cannot you guys (whoever is maintainer) just fix this,
please?
Best,
Matěj
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