On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:02:58AM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:28:16AM +1100, Darren Reed wrote:
> > John,
> > 
> > What's the plan for mailx(1) use of of mailwrapper?
> > Is it intended for mailx(1) to remain as a frontend to sendmail
> > (only) or will it also use mailwrapper(1M)?
> > 
> > If it's going to use mailwrapper(1M), then this case looks
> > a bit incomplete as mailx(1) seems to suggest a few bits
> > of its functionality are tied to sendmail...
> 
> General usage is covered by an entry for "mail" in mailer.conf.
> 
> The "conv" functionality, while alluding to a (undocumented) -U option to
> sendmail(1M), is implemented internally to mailx(1).
> 
> I can see -h, -m/metoo and possibly -v/verbose being an issue if a user
> decides to switch out sendmail; would warnings in the manuals cover
> this?

How much argument parsing does mailwrapper do, and how much does it pass
through to the real MTA?  Does it drop anything on the floor?

Danek

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