mailx, which is part of Unix 98 (http://www.UNIX-systems.org/), does not exist in FreeBSD 3.x, nor 4.x or 5.x, as far as I could see. This is bad, as this renders writing portable scripts extremely hard. Solaris, AIX, and DEC OSF do have this program, for example. Fix: There is a mailx entry in the ports tree that might be moved into the base system, but I'm not sure whether that indeed is compliant with the standard. How-To-Repeat: `which mailx` on any vanilla FreeBSD installation.
State Changed From-To: open->closed PRs that fall into the "wish" class need to include patches. Moving something from the ports into the base system is not so simple as "cvs import". Sources need to be reviewed with a closer eye towards security and a bmake skeleton needs to be written.
Mike, could you please consider MFCing the following (and possible related changes) to usr.bin/mail? Makefile revision 1.8 date: 2002/01/19 23:47:21; author: mikeh; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Link mail(1) to mailx per POSIX. Mail(1) isn't 100% POSIX compliant, but it is pretty close. Not objected to by: -standards I believe this would fix http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/18286 which was incorrectly closed, IMO. Thanks, Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/
State Changed From-To: closed->analyzed This will be fixed by MFCing -current changes.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->mikeh My MFC reminder.
State Changed From-To: analyzed->closed Fix MFC'd.