Hello Norman.
Norman Ramsey wrote in
<[email protected]>:
|... [.mailrc fragment omitted]
|
|> I have some problems parsing your problem.
|>
|> Please note first that the # comment sign on a line does not
|> create a shell-style comment, the above are all (somewhat
|> ignored, however) errors.
|
|Interesting. I have reread the man page for heirloom-mailx,
|and I did not have much luck finding documentation of the format.
That is much, much older, and POSIX standardized as
Null Command
Synopsis: # comment
This null command (comment) shall be ignored by mailx.
Heirloom mailx documented it as
If the command begins with a # sign, the line is ignored.
S-nail v14.9.25 is chatty
# The comment-command causes the entire line to be ignored. Note:
this really is a normal command which’ purpose is to discard its
arguments, not a “comment-start” indicating special character,
which means that for example trailing comments on a line are not
possible (except for commands which use Shell-style argument
quoting†).
|As you may have guessed, my .mailrc is very hold. I likely wrote my
|first .mailrc over 35 years ago.
Great! About a decade earlier than myself.
|> Having said all that i have learned that Heirloom mailx 12.5 is no
|> longer supported in Debian (for quite some time)? Are you sure
|> you are really using 12.5?
|
|Yes:
|
| $ heirloom-mailx -V
| 12.5 6/20/10
Oh, i have no idea of Debian. I bought and used Debian 3.0,
"Woody" it surely was, to go away to FreeBSD 4.7 later.
I then tried it once when the Heirloom mailx maintainer was
reluctant to continue with s-nail, but the installation was
actually unusable, which caused a bit of a turmoil on some Debian
devel list the name of which i have forgotten.
|I do have s-nail v14.9.25 installed on my system, but interestingly it
|is not offered as an implementation of `mailx`:
|
| $ update-alternatives --list mailx
| /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
| /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx
| /usr/bin/mail.mailutils
| /usr/bin/mh/mhmail
|
|I'm not sure whether s-nail is considered incompatible with mailx or
|if that's just an omission.
I *think* there are even bug reports open on that. This is
a Debianism, and so i am "technically unsuitable" (google
translate).
|> Note: it MAY depend upon what content you have placed in Cc: --
|> because of the fix for CVE-2014-7844 [1] you may have to set the
|> *expandaddr* variable, you definitely have to do this for S-nail.
|
|I checked this out and no, it's not the issue. Confirmed via test.
|
|It appears that my best course of action will be to see about
|migrating to s-nail. (I have the "`-a` for attachment" semantics too
|deeply embedded into my fingers to wish to migrate to bsd-mailx.)
|
|> (I know for sure your "8-bit in alias names" is still a hacky
|> solution for S-nail.)
|
|I'm sorry—I don't know what you mean by 8-bit in alias names.
|What does that maean? And What part of my .mailrc suggested
|that I am doing it?
You complained in 2017 that your aliases do not work in s-nail;
i had implemented syntax rules according to Postfix aliases(5),
but after you came over i had to change it to support high-bit
bytes, semicolon and period in addition.
And now the roof burns! Because you are not listed in s-nail's
THANKS even though i see
179b39f392 sendout.c:mightrecord(): FIX: terminate starg list! (Norman Ramsey)
1bc65e1bdc a_amv_var_lookup(): error log on empty environment variable
(Norman Ramsey)
8a4237d257 `alias': support high-bit bytes and semicolon (Norman Ramsey)
135cbebe04 makefile: add missing reverse solidus (Norman Ramsey)
80038311f1 Fix: do not generate charset=binary parameter (Norman Ramsey)..
5cd0f50dc6 Restore historical behaviour of *askb?cc* (Norman Ramsey)
(not in a row, and some commits happen because i stumble over
things while looking into issues).
So yes, it seems we had several threads in between 2017-07-07 and
2017-09-11 regarding several deficits of s-nail, and it all
started because of the above Debianism, via
▸+l 102 Norman Ramsey 2017-07-07 139/ 6420
Bug#867623: heirloom-mailx is not an alternative for /usr/bin/mailx
It seems to me you are subscribed to the mailx mailing-list since
August third, 2017, too. Yeah, well. So little time, v14.10 is
in the works for about six years now, and is what i use for as
long. So many changes, but still lots of TODO.
|Norman
--End of <[email protected]>
Greetings dear Norman!
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
