/bin/mail replacement (next generation of mailx)

Dmitry Butskoy buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
Wed Jun 11 15:06:19 UTC 2008


Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
> On 11 Jun 2008, at 15:28, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
>
>> Mailx-12.x adds a lot of useful functionality to the "cmdline mail 
>> command", which seems to be expected long years ago. Without it, some 
>> tasks can be performed only by TUI or even GUI applications, which 
>> makes impossible to automate things by scripts.
>
>
> This looks good, but on a minimal system how many other packages would 
> be pulled in as dependancies over the existing mailx?

For now,  "openssl" (or "nss") and "krb5-libs". Is it OK for a minimal 
system?


~buc
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