From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jun 14 03:43:25 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E47F9101A812 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2018 03:43:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x22a.google.com (mail-wm0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D5396FB3F for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2018 03:43:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id n5-v6so9054141wmc.5 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:43:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wbNdJEmwD14upZh0O4+BuO+AU6gKMyTXhKvSBpjOJTc=; b=TCbRPse+hMfkBdIaIoI0V6yrXf9lu7r16vwC1gAYabgh4jXxe6o1vMSE0KibsyMFk/ xJ5tdU4qmPhE0LzZSgRCBPLTAFGKpzKb1IH4SV8NxClRQd7hcmZMJrD6uKUInWmBSrk/ 5vyfHrTUMTPl0wWCwzTwCyf9EVuvtn60CrYSM20oTD8L1s+F7m60XyaTBBRs2lMprxaf 8gmHC4M8NEe3XVcFGBXSRLAHkylcnEnVulsofhYNd3slli+4uCCYdjt2V+DuHB13Qupy lIdtdGHaumQW90hVRzPcZLV70UWpLB5DtQtTGH4vdGfsJePgS0obw0K3xWPwkmYnztNy vbxA== X-Gm-Message-State: APt69E0CGCELS/to6yWbFjpjGWA7dx4yGYQ2+c17nSJjJz2YZgRZcaCB StWAfDUvJDJ+C/BDd5i7vQKpOg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADUXVKLBFoX5LMFTSwHgWAztv35m9UQurBtaRtoB9lk4k7rHAlunkNW3iI3QWIda9z0uW9EAiuwZlw== X-Received: by 2002:a1c:954d:: with SMTP id x74-v6mr434253wmd.57.1528947803102; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:43:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com ([90.211.23.147]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n11-v6sm4023204wro.13.2018.06.13.20.43.21 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:43:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 04:43:19 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailx anyone? Message-ID: <20180614044319.2f2bafa0@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <7b3cc5ce196fd216ccdd76fb340a2492@kathe.in> References: <70677739ac5a415c5004ea551a7458b0@kathe.in> <7b3cc5ce196fd216ccdd76fb340a2492@kathe.in> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.16.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 03:43:25 -0000 On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 23:13:13 +0530 Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > On 2018-06-13 09:37 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 13/06/2018 16:48, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > >> does anyone on this list still use mailx? > >> if not regularly, at-least intermittently? > > > > Given that mail(1) is part of the FreeBSD base system and is pretty > > much the same thing as mailx(1), then probably not that many will > > use mailx(1). mail(1) is something I do use intermittently. > > mailx is just a link to mail. :-) I've no idea about mail and mailx, but in general being implemented in the same executable doesn't imply the same behaviour. For example less and more are hard-linked, but the shared binary behaves differently according to how it's invoked.