Bug 504899

Summary:	mailx man page description doesn't match mailx implementation
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	JW <ohtmvyyn>
Component:	mailx	Assignee:	Ivana Varekova <varekova>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	10	CC:	bookreviewer, dmitry, neumann, ohtmvyyn, p.van.egdom, triage, varekova
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Last Closed:	2009-10-12 13:42:41 UTC	Type:	---
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Description JW 2009-06-10 00:46:10 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #188313 +++

Description of problem:
The options for mailx descriped in the mailx man page does not match the implementation of mailx.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mailx-12.4-1

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run "man mailx"
2. use that information to try to use /bin/mailx
3.
  
Actual results:

Many options fail.
For example, the "-e" option is described in the man page, but running "mailx -e" produces:
mailx: invalid option -- e
Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ...
            [-- sendmail-options ...]
       mail [-iInNv] -f [name]
       mail [-iInNv] [-u user]

Expected results:
The options described in the mailx man page should match what the mailx program accepts.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dmitry Butskoy 2009-06-16 14:12:02 UTC

Looks strange. Does "man mail" describe "-e" option as well or not?
("man mailx" refers to /usr/share/man/man1p/mailx.1p.gz from the "man-pages" package, whereas "man mail" refers to own mailx's manual /usr/share/man/man1/mail.1.gz)

What is your output of "which mailx" or "type mailx", and "rpm -qf /bin/mailx" ?

Comment 2 JW 2009-06-16 14:22:20 UTC

Do you have access to a Fedora system where you can check it out?

Comment 3 Dmitry Butskoy 2009-06-16 14:45:47 UTC

Sure! But on my system, it works fine... ;)

Comment 4 Walter Neumann 2009-10-12 13:15:55 UTC

I have the same problem. Turns out I am not using the mailx from the fedora package -- at some point in the distant past I'd installed another in /usr/local/bin when the fedora one crashed. Just checked the current fedora mailx and it seems fine.  I suspect JW's problem may be similar, in which case this is notabug.

Comment 5 JW 2009-10-12 14:01:32 UTC

It *was* a bug.

It was fixed in a previous version: somewhere just before 12.4-1 and possibly as a result of this bug report.

So please amend from NOTABUG to CURRENTRELEASE or just plain RESOLED (there should be such a Status or dont bugs ever get fixed?)

Comment 6 Dmitry Butskoy 2009-10-12 14:11:47 UTC

For comment #5 :

> It was fixed in a previous version: somewhere just before 12.4-1

According to http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/mailx/F-10/,
mailx in F10 was last changed 14 months ago (ie. in August 2008), whereas your bug report about F10's mailx is dated at  2009-06-09 ...