Re: about heirloom mailx

[Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>]

On 28/05/14 14:16, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Running jessie
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> The cmdline is live... that is, if I type a cmd it will be executed
> and then I get the prompt back.
> 
> Or I can hit Enter, or ^c to get the prompt back.
> 
> But shouldn't I get the prompt back when the process
> completes.. without having to do anything extra?
> 
> Or am I just not using it correctly from the gate?
> 
> 

I'm not currently using heirloom mailx, or exim, so testing it is a bit
hard - but are you getting the prompt _before_ the debug output?

I suspect it might put itself into the background, which will give you
the prompt, then the background process spits out the SMTP session.

Richard