* Bas Zoetekouw: > s-nail/heirloom-mailx is not a proper alternative for mailx/bsd-mailx, > as it uses different command line options (for example on a regulair > mailx, -a means "add header, whereas for s-nail it means "add > attachment").
We had some discussion about whether to provide a mailx alternative back in the day when heirloom-mailx was still called nail, see #272256. And at one time there was even a report about a missing -a option although it seems that then the submitter decided otherwise, see #381575 > This breaks other packages (for example cron-apt) that rely on a > mailx-dependency to send mails. Therefore, I'm making this Serious > severity. The -a option was added to bsd-mailx by Debian more than 16 years ago. However, there does not seem to be any clear definition that tells us what to expect from a /usr/bin/mailx program. Is this really s-nail's fault? Steffen, would you consider changing the parameter for adding an attachment to something else? Cheers, -Hilko
