BSD Ports

mail/mailx 0.5_2 DragonFly

Mail command with mailx extensions

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
BSD4CLAUSE
Categories
mail
Package size
53.2 KiB, 107.3 KiB installed

Description

Mail command with mailx extensions.

Mailx command is based on BSD mail command, but it also provides some

enhanced features such as:

o Edit header information. o Use pager program to display long message. o Add pipe (|) command. You can pass the mail message to the shell command by using this feature. o Add Save, Copy command. o Add askcc, askbcc command. The mailx program ask you Cc: and Bcc: at the beggining. o Add hsubject command. This is similar to subject command, but it only displays Subject: headers. o Add tilda escape command.

See also the files in ${PREFIX}/share/doc/mailx directory.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlymail/mailx0.5_2
FreeBSDmail/mailx0.5_2
GhostBSDmail/mailx0.5_2

Install

Binary package:

pkg install mailx

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/mail/mailx && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 1

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The mailx port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing