Re: about heirloom mailx
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On 29/05/14 12:49, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Trying to use heirloom mailx to test various exim4 settings and
>> It works, but there is something in it that bugs me. Makes me
>> think I'm doing something wrong.
>
> I use mailx for sending emails all of the time. I don't see the
> problem you reported. Works for me.
>
> Normally I use the mailx from bsd-mailx. I just now tested with
> heirloom-mailx and it behaves the same. That is to say it works
> fine. Because of the alternatives can you verify that you are
> using the version of mailx that you expect?
>
> On my system after installing heirloom-mailx I now have:
>
> # update-alternatives --display mailx mailx - auto mode link
> currently points to /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx /usr/bin/bsd-mailx -
> priority 50 slave Mail: /usr/bin/bsd-mailx slave Mail.1.gz:
> /usr/share/man/man1/bsd-mailx.1.gz slave mail: /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
> slave mail.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/bsd-mailx.1.gz slave
> mailx.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/bsd-mailx.1.gz
> /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx - priority 60 slave Mail:
> /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx slave Mail.1.gz:
> /usr/share/man/man1/heirloom-mailx.1.gz slave mail:
> /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx slave mail.1.gz:
> /usr/share/man/man1/heirloom-mailx.1.gz slave mailx.1.gz:
> /usr/share/man/man1/heirloom-mailx.1.gz /usr/bin/mh/mhmail -
> priority 25 slave Mail: /usr/bin/mh/mhmail slave Mail.1.gz:
> /usr/share/man/man1/mhmail.1.gz slave mail: /usr/bin/mh/mhmail
> slave mail.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/mhmail.1.gz slave mailx.1.gz:
> /usr/share/man/man1/mhmail.1.gz Current 'best' version is
> '/usr/bin/heirloom-mailx'.
>
>> Here is a typical example
>>
>> mailx -v recip@location.com Subject: what ever ble bleh .
>> <ENTER>
>>
>> And away it goes and outputs the smtp conversation ending in the
>> message
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> LOG: MAIN Completed
>>
>> But then I never get the prompt back.
>
> This is what I see:
>
> rwp@havoc:~$ echo test test test | mailx -s "heirloom-mailx test"
> bob@proulx.com rwp@havoc:~$
You're not using the -v option, which tells the MTA to be verbose.
Exim then spits out the SMTP session, while postfix captures it and
send you back an email.
Now that I put it like that, I understand it better myself - mailx
isn't putting itself in the background, but the MTA continues to work
asynchronously.
Richard
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