mail binary from mailutils package 1:2.99.98-1.4 doesn't expand aliases

Matthew Paul Thomas mpt at canonical.com
Tue Feb 3 08:50:52 UTC 2015


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Tom H wrote on 30/01/15 13:17:
> ...
> 
> There's already a bug so filing another report isn't really
> useful.

Sorry, I had looked at the bug list, but didn't notice that one was
the bug Jean-François was talking about.

> It looks like this bug is [1] and it's unclear whether it's a
> feature or a bug that mailutils' mail doesn't use aliases declared
> in "~/.mailrc".
> 
> A workaround seems to be to use bsd-mailx's mail.
> 
> [1]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mailutils/+bug/1222181

The next step is to see whether the bug occurs in upstream mailutils.
<http://mailutils.org/download.html>

If so, report a bug there
<http://mailutils.org/manual/html_section/Reporting-Bugs.html#SEC252>,
then record in Launchpad that you've done it.
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mailutils/+bug/1222181/+choose-affected-product>

If not, then it's a bug specific to the Ubuntu packaging. The next
step might be to see if it also occurs in Debian mailutils.

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mpt

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