Re: about heirloom mailx

2014-05-30 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 May 2014 at 16:49:39 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 30/05/14 08:48, Bob Proulx wrote: > > As to why your command prompt isn't being emitted after the task > > is done that seems very strange to me. Definitely not normal. As > > you can see from my examples it works fine for me. Ple

Re: about heirloom mailx

2014-05-29 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/05/14 08:48, Bob Proulx wrote: > As to why your command prompt isn't being emitted after the task > is done that seems very strange to me. Definitely not normal. As > you can see from my examples it works fine for me. Please let us > know what

Re: about heirloom mailx

2014-05-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Hector wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > This is what I see: > > > > rwp@havoc:~$ echo test test test | mailx -s "heirloom-mailx test" > > b...@proulx.com > > rwp@havoc:~$ > > You're not using the -v option, which tells the MTA to be verbose. > Exim then spits out the SMTP session, while po

Re: about heirloom mailx

2014-05-28 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/05/14 12:49, Bob Proulx wrote: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> Trying to use heirloom mailx to test various exim4 settings and >> It works, but there is something in it that bugs me. Makes me >> think I'm doing something wrong. > > I use mailx for sen

Re: about heirloom mailx

2014-05-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: > Trying to use heirloom mailx to test various exim4 settings and It > works, but there is something in it that bugs me. Makes me think I'm > doing something wrong. I use mailx for sending emails all of the time. I don't see the problem you reported. Works for me. Normally

Re: about heirloom mailx

2014-05-28 Thread Chris Davies
Richard Hector wrote: > I'm not currently using heirloom mailx, or exim, so testing it is a bit > hard - but are you getting the prompt _before_ the debug output? This is how I've seen the mail / mailx tools work since, I think, at least the last twenty years. (Ouch!) So I would suggest it's real

Re: about heirloom mailx

2014-05-28 Thread Curt
On 2014-05-28, Harry Putnam wrote: > > But shouldn't I get the prompt back when the process > completes.. without having to do anything extra? > > Or am I just not using it correctly from the gate? > Well the man page says: Ending a mail processing session You can end a mail session w

Re: about heirloom mailx

2014-05-27 Thread Richard Hector
On 28/05/14 14:16, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running jessie > > Trying to use heirloom mailx to test various exim4 settings and It > works, but there is something in it that bugs me. Makes me think I'm > doing something wrong. > > Here is a typical example > > mailx -v re...@location.com > Subj

about heirloom mailx

2014-05-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Running jessie Trying to use heirloom mailx to test various exim4 settings and It works, but there is something in it that bugs me. Makes me think I'm doing something wrong. Here is a typical example mailx -v re...@location.com Subject: what ever ble bleh . And away it goes and ou