Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The LSB mail command combines the specifications of UNIX98's mail and > > mailx commands, providing the mailx functionality whenever the two > > Humm > > definitions conflict. This program must be available as both mail and > > mailx. > > Several scripts that fire mail through web servers rely on > precise semantics including the relevant ~ escape patterns to know how to > handle security aspects with quoting. The Linux world has adapted to this > do we wish to follow existing Linux here. Just a question ?
Shouldn't be much of a problem. mail is quite simplistic (4 pages in Issue 5 vs. 20 pages for mailx), and doesn't have any ~ escapes. The only conflicts are where mailx in fact provides an enhanced version of the mail command, and most scripts depend on the funcionality described. Basically, mailx leaves off a couple of arguments that might be used by legacy scripts depending on some of the old mail functionality (e.g. -p or -t), while most scripts actually depend on mailx funcionality from mail. I believe the BSD mailx acts like this already, and I know that the GNU mailutils mailx program will (since I'm writing it). -- Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://jakob.kaivo.net/
