Re: mail works differently on debian 9 and debian 10

Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mailutils.bugs
Organization GNU.org.ua
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Jan,

> There is a working bash script on debian 9 which sends an email using this command:
> echo "Content" | mail -s "Subject" -A $PATH_TO_ATTACHMENT -aFrom:Servername\<[email protected]\> [email protected]
> 
> The mail is working as expected and the content is used as the mailbody.
> The same command works different on debian 10. There is the content
> not used as the mailbody but attached as the file ATT00001.txt

Debian 9 ships with mailutils 3.1 whereas Debian 10 ships with version
3.5.  What you observe is the effect of the bug 54992, introduced in
version 3.4.  See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?54992 for the
details.

The bug was fixed on 2019-12-15.  I haven't had enough time to roll out
a new release since then (though I hope to do so soon), so the best
course of action would be to recompile mailutils from Git HEAD.  Drop me
a note if you need any assistance with that.

Regards,
Sergey
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