Robert Elz wrote, on 12 Sep 2020: > > How you can manage to reconcile this in the standard, more precisely > that saying "the r and R commands reply to the current message, using > different, but otherwise unspecified, addresses obtained from the header > of the current message" (in better prose than that, one would hope), I > don't know, and that's not very useful to anyone.
Perhaps one way forward would be to require that mailx can be configured so that "R" and "r" behave in a particular way, but that it need not be the default configuration. While reading through the various responses, I also realised that there is a fourth problem to add to the list I originally gave. (I forget who's response made me think of it, but for convenience I'll just put the details here. Apologies for not giving credit where due.) As stated before, the description of "r" says the reply is sent to "all recipients included in the header of the message". The fourth problem is: 4. "r" is required NOT to send the reply to the author/sender of the message, but only to its (known) recipients. (So the author/sender will only get the reply if they were included in "To:" or "Cc:".) -- Geoff Clare <g.cl...@opengroup.org> The Open Group, Apex Plaza, Forbury Road, Reading, RG1 1AX, England
