The latest mailx package in portage, as of this writing, is version 8.1.2.20050715-r6 and the homepage entry in portage for mailx points to http://www.debian.org/. However, when you search Debian's site for mailx, you get a bunch of security advisories, with no entry being more recent than 2003, and a developer list with their projects with 2 *similar* entries: heirloom-mailx (a.k.a. "mail-client/nail" in portage), which apparently is hosted at SourceForge under the Heirloom Project, and bsd-mailx which seems to be based on the same POSIX base as our version of mail-client/mailx, but their current stable version is 8.1.2-0.20111106cvs-1. Now, when you go out on the internet looking for info on using mailx, a common recommendation is to use the "-A" flag to grab your account information (e.g. the mail server and it's authorization type, username and password for that server, etc.) from your ~/.mailrc file, which our version of mail-client/mailx doesn't support. Our mail-client/nail version of mailx supports it. As you can understand, this is creating confusion. At the next available opportunity, our mail-client/mailx should be bumped up to a more current version. Reproducible: Always
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=e5b1059c8e1dec352bf549be349bd8082623e8db commit e5b1059c8e1dec352bf549be349bd8082623e8db Author: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-01-01 18:47:56 +0000 Commit: Anthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-01-01 19:58:13 +0000 mail-client/mailx: version bump to 8.1.2.20160123 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/485432 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/554354 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/533208 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.19, Repoman-2.3.6 mail-client/mailx/Manifest | 2 + mail-client/mailx/mailx-8.1.2.20160123.ebuild | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+)
