Bug#629314: more info -- has to do with mailx program being used

[Andrew McGlashan]

Hi,

The older exim4-base also has the recipient up front.  The problem must 
be a change in the "mail" program -- older system is fine using 
bsd-mailx via alternatives whilst newer system is using heirloom-mailx.

Regardless, it does make more sense to put the recipient at the end of 
the mail line -- it works fine with both this way.


This from an older lenny system:

# which mail
/usr/bin/mail
# l /usr/bin/mail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2010-01-17 12:03 /usr/bin/mail -> 
/etc/alternatives/mail
# l /etc/alternatives/mail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2010-01-17 12:03 /etc/alternatives/mail -> 
/usr/bin/bsd-mailx
# l /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 78520 2008-04-26 17:54 /usr/bin/bsd-mailx


And a newer squeeze system (with the problem)

#  which mail
/usr/bin/mail
#  l /usr/bin/mail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Sep 17 02:54 /usr/bin/mail -> 
/etc/alternatives/mail
#  l /etc/alternatives/mail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Sep 17 02:54 /etc/alternatives/mail -> 
/usr/bin/heirloom-mailx
#  l /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 343264 May 29  2010 /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx


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Kind Regards
AndrewM

Andrew McGlashan
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