[SOLVED] New mail objects to header line beginning with >

RandomTroll · 11-25-2018, 01:19 PM

There's a new mail (mailx, heirloom mail...). Sending messages to myself doesn't work.

I use:

Code:

 mailx -s subject -t RandomTroll < text

and get:

Quote:

mailx: Not a header line, skipping: text
mailx: Restoring deleted header lines
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/RandomTroll

When I read my mail I get:

Quote:

mailx version v14.9.11. Type `?' for help
/var/spool/mail/RandomTroll: 1 message 1 new
mailx: Not a header line, skipping: '>From RandomTroll Sun Nov 25 12:00:04 2018'
mailx: Not a header line, skipping: '>From RandomTroll Sun Nov 25 12:00:04 2018'
mailx: Not a header line, skipping: '>From RandomTroll Sun Nov 25 12:00:04 2018'

There are new messages in the error message ring (denoted by ERROR)

The `errors' command manages this message ring
ERROR#

and find this in the header:

Quote:

>From RandomTroll Sun Nov 25 12:01:27 2018

I restored the previous package, 12.5. It sees the same thing but doesn't object. What's up? The example I use up top is in the man page

bathory · 11-25-2018, 02:06 PM

Hi,

You don't need the -t option, unless the file text that you redirect to the mail command contains the needed fields To: Subject: etc.
From mail(x) manpage:

Quote:

-t The message to be sent is expected to contain a message header with `To:', `Cc:', or `Bcc:' fields giving its recipients. Recipients specified on the command line are ignored.

If you don't want that, use just:

Code:

mailx -s subject RandomTroll < text

RandomTroll · 11-25-2018, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

You don't need the -t option

Omitting '-t' makes no difference. Besides, I usually use the features it supports. I tried to simplify my question. The problem is that sending mail any way I can includes a

Quote:

>From

line in the header, to which the new mail objects but no previous versions.

bathory · 11-26-2018, 04:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RandomTroll

Omitting '-t' makes no difference. Besides, I usually use the features it supports. I tried to simplify my question. The problem is that sending mail any way I can includes a line in the header, to which the new mail objects but no previous versions.

Sorry, but I cannot replicate this behavior with or without the "-t" option, neither with mailx-12.5 nor with the new s-nail-14.9.11.

RandomTroll · 11-26-2018, 10:38 AM

If I change:

Quote:

O UnixFromLine=From $g $d

(the default) to:

Quote:

O UnixFromLine=""

in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf Then the problem line doesn't happen.
But I still have another problem: the subject is right-justified:

Quote:

mailx version v14.9.11. Type `?' for help
/var/spool/mail/RandomTroll: 1 message 1 new

N 1 RandomTroll@my.domain 2018-11-26 09:20 15/560 Unknown notify test

Later:
Which was fixed by adding a - to the %s field of the headline variable in $HOME/.mailrc. Why it didn't matter before, I don't know.

It doesn't show in this message, but on my 170-column display 'Unknown notify test' is on the right edge.