Bug#728707: heirloom-mailx does not seem to understand the -s option properly

[Andreas Metzler]

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On 2013-11-04 Andy Bennett <andyjpb at knodium.com> wrote:
> Package: exim4-base
> Version: 4.72-6+squeeze3

> If /etc/alternatives/mail points to /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx rather than
> /usr/bin/bsd-mailx then /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base fails with "exim
> abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -s<fqdn>" where
> <fqdn> is the output of "hostname --fqdn".

> I fixed this by removing the heirloom-mailx package and installing the
> bsd-mailx package.

Hello,

this issue is already fixed in later releases, including Debian/stable.

See http://bugs.debian.org/629314

cu Andreas
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