1) Removed the -B flag (it was stupid on my part) and added a short
description indicating how to accomplish the same thing under the
"Sending Mail" section of man mail(1).
2) Added a -H flag to dump the headers and exit. It takes optional
flags to restrict to old, new, read, unread, and deleted messages
(the later being kind of useless - it shares code with something
that already had it).
3) Restored the 'Save' command which somehow got mistakenly removed in
the last commit and add documentation for it! (My apologies to
its author.)
4) Added a 'mkread' command to mark messages as read (the inverse of
'unread'). Should we also have a 'mknew' command?
5) Added a 'smopts' command to keep a database of addresses and
sendmail options to be used when sending messages to those
addresses. See man mail(1) for a fuller description.
6) Added 'indentpreamble' and 'indentpostscript' variables whose
values are inserted before and after a quoted message (~m or ~M
escapes).
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7) Added string formatting abilities for the 'prompt', 'insertpreamble',
'insertpostscript', and header display strings. These strings
support all the strftime() format parameters as well as many more
specific to mail (see man mail(1)).
8) Fix the -a flag so that it only takes a single filename, unless
"mime-attach-list" is defined. This is more conventional and avoids
unexpected whitespace issues.
1) Use editline [optional]:
Most of this code was borrowed from src/usr.bin/ftp. It does the
appropriate editing, history, and completion for all mail commands
(from cmdtab[]) and also does editing on header strings ('~h' inside
the mail editor).
1) Use editline [optional]:
Most of this code was borrowed from src/usr.bin/ftp. It does the
appropriate editing, history, and completion for all mail commands
(from cmdtab[]) and also does editing on header strings ('~h' inside
the mail editor).
2) '-B' flag:
This will suppress the "To:" line passed to sendmail. In most
configurations it will lead to sendmail adding "To: undisclosed
recipients;". Currently, AFAIK mail requires at least one exposed
recipient address.
3) Comments in rcfile:
Currently, comments in .mailrc are only supported if the first
(non-white) character on a line is '#' followed by white space,
i.e., '#' is a 'nop' command. This (trivial) patch allows the more
normal/expected use of '#' as a comment character. It does not
respect quoting, so that might be an objection which I should fix.
4) Sendmail option editing:
This adds the sendmail option string to the strings editable by the
'~h' command within the mail editor. Currently, you can only set
this string from the command-line, which is particularly annoying
when replying to mail.
5) Reply from:
When replying to a message, grab the "To:" address from the message
and, if there is only one such address and it does not match a list of
allowed addresses (set in the "ReplyFrom" variable), pass it to
sendmail as the "From:" address for the reply (with the '-f' option).
I often make aliases for myself so that my primary address is not
given out; if the alias gets out, I know who to blame. Unfortunately,
a reply to such a message would normally use the primary address
without this patch. A warning is displayed when this is going to
happen so that it can be modified with '~h'.
6) CC and BCC lists:
Allow '-c' and '-b' to accept white-space or ',' delimited lists.
Currently, a white-space delimited list of addresses work, but a
list of aliases will not get expanded. For example, currently:
mail -c "foo bar" christos
will fail to send mail to 'foo' and 'bar' if these are mail aliases
(in ~/.mailrc); sendmail aliases (in /etc/aliases) do work.
7) pipe command:
This pipes the current message into a shell command. I use this for
quick decoding of uuencoded mail, but I can imagine it might be
useful for decrypting encrypted mail, too.
8) show command:
This command takes a list of variables and shows their values. It
is probably stupid as the 'set' command without any argument
displays all variable values. Of course, if there are a lot of
variables you have to sift through the list for the one(s) you want.
target) instead of using home-grown 'distribution' targets or using
FILES with the 'install' target.
Add some etc/ subdir Makefiles where appropriate.
XXX: some of etc/Makefile install-etc-files could be converted to CONFIGFILES.
program/tool from "FOO" to "TOOL_FOO". The new variables are:
TOOL_ASN1_COMPILE TOOL_CAP_MKDB TOOL_CAT TOOL_CKSUM TOOL_COMPILE_ET
TOOL_CONFIG TOOL_CRUNCHGEN TOOL_CTAGS TOOL_DB TOOL_EQN TOOL_FGEN
TOOL_GENCAT TOOL_GROFF TOOL_HEXDUMP TOOL_INDXBIB TOOL_INSTALLBOOT
TOOL_INSTALL_INFO TOOL_M4 TOOL_MAKEFS TOOL_MAKEINFO TOOL_MAKEWHATIS
TOOL_MDSETIMAGE TOOL_MENUC TOOL_MKCSMAPPER TOOL_MKESDB
TOOL_MKLOCALE TOOL_MKMAGIC TOOL_MKTEMP TOOL_MSGC TOOL_MTREE
TOOL_PAX TOOL_PIC TOOL_PREPMKBOOTIMAGE TOOL_PWD_MKDB TOOL_REFER
TOOL_ROFF_ASCII TOOL_ROFF_DVI TOOL_ROFF_HTML TOOL_ROFF_PS
TOOL_ROFF_RAW TOOL_RPCGEN TOOL_SOELIM TOOL_SUNLABEL TOOL_TBL
TOOL_UUDECODE TOOL_VGRIND TOOL_ZIC
For each, provide default in <bsd.sys.mk> of the form:
TOOL_FOO?= foo
and for the ${USETOOLS}=="yes" case in <bsd.own.mk>, provide override:
TOOL_FOO= ${TOOLDIR}/bin/${_TOOL_PREFIX}foo
Document all of these in bsd.README.
This cleans up a chunk of potential (and actual) namespace collision
within our build infrastructure, as well as improves consistency in
the share/mk documentation and provision of appropriate defaults for
each of these variables.
He accidently moved the call to block the SIGCHLD to the wrong side of
the call to findchild().
Caused a coredump in one in every N thousand invocations of mail,
which I have been hunting for literally years.
Fixes PR 19696 from Mason Loring Bliss, too.
By the way, this is a prime example of why declarations of the form
struct foo *p = funcall();
are pure liquid evil.
when deciding whether to run $PAGER, otherwise it may start up the
pager for a two line message if all 55 header lines are the subject
of a .mailrc ignore command.
(And no, I don't find this program directly useful for reading
today's mail volumes, but it's great as a component run from wrapper
scripts, pretty good for scanning archived mail, and more than
adequate for sending mail.)
data. This is useful when piping cron error output to mail. While I am
there add -~ to be a synonym for -I [but don't document it]. This is for
compatibility with other OS's.
- ensure hostname from gethostname() is nul-terminated in all cases
- minor KNF
- use MAXHOSTNAMELEN over various other values/defines
- be safe will buffers that hold hostnames
