Package: mailutils
Version: 1:2.0+dfsg1-4
Severity: normal

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I'm experiencing a very strange problem with the 'mail' utility and I
have no idea what it means:

servo:~ 0$ echo foo | /usr/bin/mail -s test [email protected]
input in flex scanner failed
servo:~ 2$ 

What's bizarre, though, is that if it's called as 'mailx' it seems to
work:

servo:~ 2$ echo foo | /usr/bin/mailx -s test [email protected]
servo:~ 0$ readlink -f /usr/bin/mailx
/usr/bin/mail
servo:~ 0$ 

What could possibly be going on here?  I'm at a loss.

Thanks for the help.

jamie.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mailutils depends on:
ii  exim4-daemon-light [ma 4.69-11           lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  guile-1.8-libs         1.8.7+1-1         Main Guile libraries
ii  libc6                  2.9-23            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2             1.41.3-1          common error description library
ii  libfribidi0            0.10.9-1          Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.4-3           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgdbm3               1.8.3-6+b1        GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libgmp3c2              2:4.3.1+dfsg-3    Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  libgnutls26            2.8.3-1           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0          1.6-1             library for common error values an
ii  libgsasl7              1.1-1             GNU SASL library
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.7dfsg~beta3-1   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libidn11               1.15-1            GNU Libidn library, implementation
ii  libk5crypto3           1.7dfsg~beta3-1   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
ii  libkrb5-3              1.7dfsg~beta3-1   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.17-1          OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libltdl7               2.2.6a-4          A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libmailutils2          1:2.0+dfsg1-4     GNU Mail abstraction library
ii  libmysqlclient15off    5.0.51a-24+lenny1 MySQL database client library
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20090803-1+b1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libntlm0               0.3.13-1          NTLM authentication library
ii  libpam0g               1.0.1-10          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libreadline5           5.2-5             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libtasn1-3             2.3-1             Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libwrap0               7.6.q-18          Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

mailutils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mailutils suggests:
pn  mailutils-mh                  <none>     (no description available)

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