Is there a reason that the default option for a mailer program (at least on Linux) is .Options$mailer="mailx"? I don't have mailx on my system, I suspect many other Linux users don't either, and it's kind of disconcerting to have bug.report() fail ... --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = i686-unknown-linux arch = i686 os = linux system = i686, linux status = major = 0 minor = 90.1 year = 1999 month = December day = 15 language = R Search Path: .GlobalEnv, Autoloads, package:base -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
mailx (PR#404)
2 messages · Ben Bolker, Friedrich Leisch
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:48:33 +0100 (MET), bolker (b) wrote:
b> Is there a reason that the default option for a mailer program (at least b> on Linux) is .Options$mailer="mailx"? I don't have mailx on my system, b> I suspect many other Linux users don't either, and it's kind of disconcerting b> to have bug.report() fail ... mailx is a ``meta-name'' which currently searches for mailx Mail /usr/ucb/mail in this order. The former two are available on my Debian Linux machine. The reason is that plain mail does not allow all options we need on some Unix systems, hence we can't include it in the list. But of course the above list can be extended ... which program would you suggest to use? .f -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._