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Heirloom mailx (formerly known as "nail") is derived from Berkeley Mail and provides the functionality of the System V and POSIX mailx commands. Additional features include support for MIME, IMAP (including caching and disconnected use), POP3, SMTP, S/MIME, international character sets, maildir folders, message threading, powerful search methods, scoring, and a Bayesian junk mail filter. Mailx can be used as a mail batch language in nearly the same way as it is used interactively. It can thus act as a mailbox filter, can fetch mail from remote accounts, and can send files as attachments.

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2005-07-29 20:17
11.25

A bug in the base64 encoder that added two bits of junk under certain circumstances has been fixed; most decoders ignore such bits. A bug in the IMAP cache that caused the message body to appear twice under rare circumstances has also been fixed. Input that lacks a terminating newline is now always encoded in quoted-printable. Support for wildcard host names in certificates according to RFC 2595 has been added. The maximum length of lines that are passed to SMTP servers is now configurable. The "sort" command now uncollapses a threaded view.
Tags: Minor bugfixes

2005-07-14 15:06
11.24

A core dump that occurred since the last release
when sending messages with the "replyto" variable
set was fixed. The maximum recursion depth for the
"folders" command on an IMAP server is now
configurable. An "-R" option has been introduced
to open all folders read-only. Further fixes were
made to the "folders" command for reading TTY
input and for SSL support using Mozilla NSS.
Tags: Major bugfixes

2005-06-28 19:44
11.23

It is now possible to put multiple addresses in the "From" and "Reply-To" fields. The "From", "Sender", "Reply-To", and "Organization" fields can be changed for a single message using the new "~H" tilde escape. The output for "~p" has been extended to include these fields. Some minor bugs have been fixed.
Tags: Minor feature enhancements

2005-03-20 16:44
11.22

In threaded mode, the thread structure is shown using line-drawing characters in the header summary in UTF-8 mode. When a message part of content-type text/anything is written with the pipe-type/subtype mechanism, it is converted to the character encoding of the locale again. Changing the default port number for SMTP STARTTLS works.
Tags: Minor feature enhancements

2005-02-19 15:56
11.21

nail no longer relies on the SMTP server to strip "bcc" fields. Quotes
are set correctly again with the "pipe-type/subtype" mechanism (e.g.,
when replying to HTML messages). SSL error messages when compiled with
Mozilla NSS are more detailed now. The "next" command now also advances
after a "touch", "mbox", "unread", or "new" command.
Tags: Minor bugfixes

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