Debian Bug report logs - #368623
mailutils: Please document that --to is assumed if no addresses are given on the commandline

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Package: mailutils; Maintainer for mailutils is Jordi Mallach <[email protected]>; Source for mailutils is src:mailutils (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Justin Pryzby <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:03:38 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version mailutils/1:0.6.93-3

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From: Justin Pryzby <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: mailutils: Please document that --to is assumed if no addresses are given on the commandline
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:59:44 -0400
Package: mailutils
Version: 1:0.6.93-3
Severity: wishlist

~$ echo blah blah blah |mail -s foo
Cannot parse address `blah blah blah' (while expanding `blah blah blah'): Format of RFC822 object is bad

Same result when I used mail -s foo --to.  The should either be documented or the behavior changed (error if no addresses are given).

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