Bug 447634

Summary:	mailx isn't what it seems to be
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mads Kiilerich <mads>
Component:	mailx	Assignee:	Ivana Varekova <varekova>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Mads Kiilerich 2008-05-20 21:51:09 UTC

mailx package contains /bin/mail and /usr/bin/Mail and their man pages, but no
mailx.

The mailx package name indicates that installing it provides the mailx binary,
but the actual /bin/mailx command can be found in redhat-lsb (as symlink to
/bin/mail).

And even though mail and Mail and mailx ends up being the same command then
mailx has its own manpage - which can be found in the man-pages package.

This is quite confusing and time-wasting when debugging mailx problems. I
suggest that mailx should be selfcontained in Fedora 10 - or at least that
status quo and its rationale be documented in the mailx package.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mailx-8.1.1-48.fc9.i386

Comment 1 Ivana Varekova 2008-06-11 12:44:55 UTC

This seems to be ok - mail(1) is an man-page which is a part of mailx package
and contains the description of mail command which is its part too. mailx(1p) is
a part of  man-pages and describe the the posix standard. mailx binary is the
part of redhat-lsb.

Comment 2 Mads Kiilerich 2008-11-05 16:23:38 UTC

For the record,

* Wed Jul 30 2008 Dmitry Butskoy <Dmitry> - 12.3-1
- Place mailx to /bin/mailx, to avoid extra symlink in redhat-lsb package
- /bin/mailx is now a base binary, another symlinked to it.

thanks