/bin/mail replacement (next generation of mailx)

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Wed Jun 11 21:16:43 UTC 2008


On 06/11/2008 06:06 PM, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> 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.

I am 100% in favor. I already use nail instead of mail everywhere I need 
to use command line tools. What I love most is it's ability to attach files.


>>
>>
>> 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?
openssl and krb5-libs are already required by openssh so I'd say it's 
not a problem




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