Bug 17461

Summary: the -u option in /bin/mail does not work
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Joachim Backes <joachim.backes>
Component: mailxAssignee: Florian La Roche <laroche>
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Description Joachim Backes 2000-09-13 05:26:24 UTC 
Using the mail command as the root user, the option "-u <some user>" has no
effect. On the other hand, the equivalent command
mail -f /var/spool/mail/<some user> works correctly as described.
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-11-02 13:48:12 UTC 
*** Bug 17816 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2000-11-02 14:12:48 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16485 ***