Bug 22645

Summary: Cannot override "ignore" in /etc/mail.rc
Product: Base System Reporter: dannyman <dannyman>
Component: confAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 3.5-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description dannyman 2000-11-06 20:00:01 UTC 
From one of my more oddball users:

I use /usr/bin/mail on never as my mail reader.  Yes, it sucks.  It would suck
less if someone with root privileges would comment out the line beginning
"ignore" on /etc/mail.rc.  Yes, this will affect anyone who uses
/usr/bin/mail.  Anyone who wants these lines ignored can always add this
config line to his own .mailrc, but someone who doesn't want these lines
ignored has no recourse.  Solaris mailx supports "unignore", but FreeBSD mail
does not.

Fix: 

Comment out the system-wide "ignore" config, or implement "unignore" which
ought to be trivial, if anyone cared enough.
Comment 1 Jens Schweikhardt freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-08-13 18:37:16 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Please use the 'retain' option in your .mailrc to get the effect 
of undoing /etc/mail.rc's ignores. See mail(1) for details.