Bug 20432

Summary:	mailx-8.1.1-16 security fix messes up backspace key
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <lazzaro>
Component:	mailx	Assignee:	Florian La Roche <laroche>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2	CC:	blavier, dr
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Description Need Real Name 2000-11-06 18:47:30 UTC

Intalled the mailx-8.1.1-16 security fix, seems like the
new "short list" of environment variables mailx now looks
at is a little too short, and terminal config info isn't
being seen by mailx. Practical result is that pressing the
backspace key at the & prompt prints junk instead of doing
a backspace operation -- one must literally type control-H
now to do a backspace. The shell and all other apps still
handle backspace fine, as does other RedHat machines with
older mailx's. FYI, I think this alias is what's setting
up the behavior of interest here (ts gets run in .login) ...

alias   ts      'set noglob ; eval `tset -Q -s -e^H -k^U  \!*`'