Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/mail

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:51:38AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Geert Hendrickx <ghen%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
> > I grepped the entire source tree for "send-mail", and only found it in
> > some examples in mailer.conf(5).  The CVS history of usr.bin/mail/
> > doesn't reveal anything either, send-mail was there with the initial
> > import.
> 
> Yes, we all know that. However, there are people who could be asked,
> and the SCCS history is available, too. Please find out.

Perry, 

I have no interest in finding out why it was once called "send-mail".  
I think this is all just historic.  Note that the /usr/bin/mail sources
in our tree today are still from 1993.  If mail(1) works with "sendmail"
today, that's enough for me.  

E.g., looking at the sources, /usr/bin/mail optionally calls sendmail
with a -m ("metoo") flag.  Postfix' sendmail(1) manpage says: 

        -m (ignored)
                Backwards compatibility.

Sendmail's own sendmail(1) manpage doesn't even mention -m anymore.  

That says enough, IMO.  

        Geert