Thanks for the timely and thoughtful response(s)!

"--disable-sendmail" option, which means that Mailutils no longer
> understands the "sendmail:" URL scheme.  And this is the default MTA
> scheme used by mail and also the scheme that the failed test attempted
> to use.


Ah, that does indeed explain everything I've seen during this.  I was *so*
baffled why 'mail' was behaving that way, and felt sure that it _should_
'just work'.

And of course I thought that I had screwed up somehow, which I guess I kind
of did by using --disable-sendmail.  I am running Debian Squeeze, and using
Exim4 -- so I disabled 'sendmail'.  Doh!  (P.S. I see that Exim4 sets up a
symlink to itself to provide a '/usr/sbin/sendmail' command on Squeeze)

I really appreciate your taking the time to explain this: it makes perfect
sense now.

I also very much appreciate how well you understand and conform to the
standards -- very, very nice.  I'm sure it must be a real challenge at
times.

Thank you also for all the time you've spent developing this wonderful
software!

Sincerely,

Chris Hall
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