R devel - Jan 2000 - mailx (PR#404)

Is there a reason that the default option for a mailer program (at least
on Linux) is .Options$mailer="mailx"?  I don't have mailx on my
system,
I suspect many other Linux users don't either, and it's kind of
disconcerting
to have bug.report() fail ...

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Version:
 platform = i686-unknown-linux
 arch = i686
 os = linux
 system = i686, linux
 status = 
 major = 0
 minor = 90.1
 year = 1999
 month = December
 day = 15
 language = R

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, Autoloads, package:base

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>>>>> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:48:33 +0100 (MET),
>>>>> bolker  (b) wrote:
b> Is there a reason that the default option for a mailer program (at least
b> on Linux) is .Options$mailer="mailx"?  I don't have mailx on
my system,
b> I suspect many other Linux users don't either, and it's kind of
disconcerting
b> to have bug.report() fail ...

mailx is a ``meta-name'' which currently searches for

	mailx
	Mail
	/usr/ucb/mail

in this order. The former two are available on my Debian Linux
machine. The reason is that plain mail does not allow all options we
need on some Unix systems, hence we can't include it in the list.

But of course the above list can be extended ... which program would
you suggest to use?

.f

 
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