<mail> command missing?

[Daniel Robitaille]

> > On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 19:57, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > > There has been discussions about how to do with
> > > Mail ever since the spring, with the aim to apply the changes for
> > > Breezy.   I suspect the root of mailx not being installed by default
> > > comes from these discussions.  See for example this spec from UDU in
> > > April:
> > >   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MailRoadmap
> >
> > That discussion, initiated by MattZimmerman, proposed switching
> > from Exim to Postfix, standardising on Maildir format in a
> > non-standard but sensible ~/.maildir directory, and eventually
> > making all mail apps automagically work together when installed.
> > All excellent points.
> >
> > If there's an official explanation for dumping Postfix and Mailx I
> > haven't found it yet.

Another spec from this spring, this one with the actual decision of
moving postfix and mailx from being installed by default to simply
being "supported" (but once again without an actual explanation; but
it points back to that MailRoadmap wiki page):

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackageSelection

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The following packages should be moved from base to supported:

    * netkit-inetd
    * mailx (pending MailRoadmap)
    * postfix (pending MailRoadmap)
    * postfix-tls (pending MailRoadmap)

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Daniel Robitaille