reopen 369666
severity wishlist
retitle Fail more gracefully when mailx is not available.
thanks

Hi

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 06:14:28PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:54:54PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > mailx is recommended, and that is the proper dependency as it by
> > default need mailx, but can be configured not to need it.
> 
> Ok. I see. In that case, cron-apt should handle missing mailx more
> gracefully than dumping a shell error message about the non-existent
> mail command into a cron-mail as this looks like an actual bug instead
> of designed behavior.

Well that can be argued as it is the meaning with recommends, but
I can reopen it as a wishlist bug.

Thanks

// Ola

> Greetings
> Marc
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