Re: Mailutils+nullmailer: sender full name

[Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>]

On Wed, 2023-10-18 at 13:56 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
[...]
> Before stretch, if you had heirloom-mailx installed, both "mail -a file"
> and "mailx -a file" worked.  After upgrading to stretch, you'd have an
> s-nail program, but *not* a mail or mailx program, so all your scripts
> would break.  And if you did the obvious thing and installed bsd-mailx
> as a replacement, "mailx -a file" would try to add a header named "file"
> instead of attaching a file named "file".
> 
> So, after the stretch upgrade, you would either have to change all of
> your scripts to use s-nail instead of mailx, or
[...]

That brings back memories. I did that and switched to using s-nail by
name for scripts that send me status and backup report emails with
filtered logs as attachments.

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Tixy