Re: /usr/bin/mail policy
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article > you wrote: >> Since heirloom-mailx (and any mailx following the POSIX spec) doesn't >> have a way to specify extra headers > > What about using /usr/sbin/sendmail? Currently, our mail sending mechanisms fall into two categories: either $DEBEMAIL or $EMAIL is set or they aren't. For the former, one of mutt, sendmail, or a direct smtp connection is used to send the email. For the latter, we use mail to generate a From address for us and send the email. If people consider it acceptable to require $DEBEMAIL or $EMAIL to be set, then I have no problem removing our use of the mail command. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/g2u14ccba101005071234ub235a1bfv12cabf8144f80...@mail.gmail.com
Re: /usr/bin/mail policy
In article you wrote: > Since heirloom-mailx (and any mailx following the POSIX spec) doesn't > have a way to specify extra headers What about using /usr/sbin/sendmail? Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005071818.o47iiqlf056...@neskaya.eckenfels.net
Re: /usr/bin/mail policy
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > bts from devscripts invokes mail with an -a flag, which has different > meanings in bsd-mailx and heirloom-mailx (the latter being some > sort-of-default in squeeze installations, apparently). This has been brought up in #577564 as well. The subject is a little misleading since, at the time, I was under the impression mailx provided the functionality we needed while mail didn't. > I'm not sure which package is at fault here. Any suggestions? This is done to add extra headers to the mail being sent. The User-Agent header is always added and when --no-ack is specified the X-Debbugs-No-Ack header is also added. Since heirloom-mailx (and any mailx following the POSIX spec) doesn't have a way to specify extra headers, I've been considering changing this. X-Debbugs-No-Ack can be set as a pseudo-header and the User-Agent header was only added in response to #493884. While the User-Agent header is useful, I could see backing out this change so bts doesn't require the non-standard -a flag. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/o2r14ccba101005070944n110cd9a2w4c5ee6a1c6cd6...@mail.gmail.com
/usr/bin/mail policy
bts from devscripts invokes mail with an -a flag, which has different meanings in bsd-mailx and heirloom-mailx (the latter being some sort-of-default in squeeze installations, apparently). I'm not sure which package is at fault here. Any suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ocgr65zd@mid.deneb.enyo.de
