Re: mailx problem
Loic,
One thing I did recently was upgrade to Hamm using apt-get. Mailx is the only
problem I have noticed since then.
But now I think in the future I may get other problems since it looks like it
is only half-done.
When I do a dpkg -l on mialx I get :
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii mailx 8.1.1-3 A simple mail user agent.
for libc:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
un libc <none> (no description available)
for lib6c:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii libc6 2.0.7r-2 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time
files)
for libc5:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii libc5 5.4.38-1.1 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time lib
Loic Prylli wrote:
> > I reconfigured my smail, now when I run mailx from the command line I
> > have a problem. Example:
> > mailx -s "test" gregory.green@advantagecom.com
> > blah blah blah
> > Cc:
> > Null message body; hope that's ok
>
> This symptom has appeared at some point in some hamm releases. Could you
> tell precisely which version of mailx you are using? (and your libc
> version eventually)
>
> >
> > When ever I press return to start a new line, I get the Null message
> > body; hope that's ok message.
> > Then when I recieve the mail, I have no message body. Is this something
> > that can be switched in the /etc/smail/config file?
> > I have restarted smail several times, but to no avail.
>
> This would definitely be a bug in mailx, not in smail.
>
> Regards,
>
> Loic
What can be done about this?
Thanks,
Gregory Green
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