Re: mail doens't work at all

[Sam Roberts]

This looks like a bug that has been fixed.

Where did the code you are building come from? Is it a recent
snapshot?

Sam

Quoting Jordi Mallach <address@hidden>, who wrote:
> [Please Cc: me any followup]
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have come across this bug in Debian's mailutils, and Jeff isn't able
> to take care of it right now.
> 
> Anyway, any invocation of mail results in the following:
> 
>  | $ mail broonie                                                             
>   
>  | sendmail="sendmail:/usr/sbin/sendmail"                                     
>   
>  | sendmail="sendmail:/usr/sbin/sendmail"                                     
>   
>  | sendmail="sendmail:/usr/sbin/sendmail"                                     
>   
>  | source requires an argument                                                
>   
> 
> This breaks debconf and many cron scripts, for example, so it's a quite
> uncool bug. I haven't looked at it at all. Maybe it's Debian-specific,
> so sorry for just telling about it without providing more info.
> 
> Jordi
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