hiyal, I just subscribed to submit this tiny patch to clarify the manpage about behaviour of mailx called without options and no mailbox present (or empty).
It nearly drove me nuts, apparently doing different as in the manpage, i suspected almost everything: Undocumented vendor patches, /etc/alternatives bullshit, revision mismatch between binary and manpage; only because I didn't read the option descriptions. Personally I think it should be documented alot more prominent. Sadly I only groked the list archives /afterwards/, so it based on the revision at SF.net cvs, which apparently isn't used by anyone at all these days. Should the patch not apply against the version you're using, i'd be happy to rewrite it. I just want to make sure I'm running into this again in a years. toodle-looh, \blade
From da0f9843e89ec001beb6c0681a8558ea53e69e47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: blade <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:34:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] clarified the fact mailx won't enter interactive mode if the mailbox is empty or emptystart is set. This little detail drove me nuts and took me nearly 4 hours to find out. --- mailx.1 | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mailx.1 b/mailx.1 index 70a7859..8e422ec 100644 --- a/mailx.1 +++ b/mailx.1 @@ -263,7 +263,9 @@ available to help when composing letters. In normal usage \fImailx\fR is given no arguments and checks the user's mail out of the post office, then prints out a one line header -of each message found. +of each message found; if the users mailbox +is empty, or cannot be found, \fImailx\fR never +enters interactive mode unless emptystart is set. The current message is initially the first message (numbered 1) and can be printed using the print command -- 1.7.10.4
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