It is called `mail' because it is designed as a replacement for the system /bin/mail command.
Let me put it more directly. I'm not asking this as a GNU+Linux distributor, but as a system admin who wants to take advantage of GNU mailutils' extra features (MRA, mimeview, and movemail for Emacs). If I "yum remove mailx" I lose half my installed system, (Ubuntu/Debian make this easier with alternatives, which allows me to substitute GNU mail for mailx). I don't believe you intend to have /bin/mail overwritten with GNU mail, hence my question. I could install /usr/local/bin/mail, and modify the PATH so that GNU mail is called first, but changing the name to /usr/local/bin/Mail seems an easier alternative. The prefix options you provided earlier appear to be for path modification of where the binary is installed--something that would be useful for a distribution's build system--not under what name the specific binary is installed as, except "--program-transform-name", but I'm not sure I understand how the latter would work for my purpose. _______________________________________________ Bug-mailutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-mailutils
