[bug-mailutils] Configuration issue

[Chris Hall]

The Debian-supplied mailx works just fine, and I can use Mailutils 'mail' to read the message sent by mailx.  But Mailtuils 'mail' cannot send anything.  

WITHOUT configuration file .mail.rc or /usr/local/etc/mail.rc, when I try mail to myself at localhost:

Cannot create mailer: Malformed or unsupported mailer URL

cannot send message: Malformed or unsupported mailer URL

Cannot open file /home/chris/dead.letter: No such file or directory

(FWIW, I uninstalled 2.9.96, built Mailutils 2.2 and installed -- SAME ERROR)

(It doesn't try localhost:25 by default?)

WITH configuration file .mail.rc and /usr/local/etc/mail.rc:

mailer {

   url smtp://localhost:25;

}

when I try mail to myself at localhost:

address@hidden:~/admin/build$ mail chris

mail: Unknown command: mailer

mail: Unknown command: url

mail: Unknown command: }

mail: Unknown command: mailer

mail: Unknown command: url

mail: Unknown command: }

Cc: 

Subject: 

 

Cannot create mailer: Malformed or unsupported mailer URL

cannot send message: Malformed or unsupported mailer URL

Cannot open file /home/chris/dead.letter: No such file or directory

address@hidden:~/admin/build$ mail --version

mail (GNU Mailutils) 2.99.96

Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, inc.

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

I spend too much time on this, please help, I have only limited time, would rather be productive rather than spend hours trying to configure something so simple as 'mailer URL', but *must* find some mail tools that work.  If not this one, I start over looking at others.

TIA,

Chris