[Bug 1222181] Re: /usr/bin/mail ignores aliases in $HOME/.mailrc

[Daniel Barrett]

Interesting question. Ubuntu definitely supported $HOME/.mailrc aliases
in version 10.04 (with its installed postfix).

Also, the "mail" command has supported $HOME/.mailrc since the 1980s,
even pre-Linux.  It would be (IMHO) pretty unwise/unlikely to drop
support for a config file that Linux scripts worldwide have depended on
for decades. That would be like bash dropping support for $HOME/.bashrc.

Is /usr/bin/mail even part of postfix? It's not in any postfix package
in 13.04 (see bug #1222179) but somehow gets installed.

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  /usr/bin/mail ignores aliases in $HOME/.mailrc

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