On 10/12/2018 09.03, David C. Rankin wrote:
Note to Devs going forward,
Opensuse has always packaged heirloom-mailx as mailx. Historically this has been fine as heirloom-mailx was under reasonable development through SuSE 10, and 11. The current package for Leap 42.3 is mailx-12.5-25.4 (which I believe is a 2010 release)
By contract s-nail (https://www.sdaoden.eu/code.html) derived from the same codebase and further extended is under current development with the current released version of 14.9.11. While s-nail is a drop-in replacement for heirloom-mailx, (meaning existing options are the same, etc..), it also provides notable improvements.
Specifically the `-M` option that allows you to specify how to treat the Content-type for body text redirected on stdin. Heirloom-mailx provides nothing comparable instead relying solely on the MIME type for attachment content type.
May be time to move from the 2010 command line mailer to the present day. Give it a look and compare and if it makes sense, send it over to the factory folks.
Interesting :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)