On Thu 13 Jul 2017 at 10:22:35 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 09:09:14AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > That may depend on how you installed Debian. bsd-mailx appears to be > > Priority: optional in stretch, but if you upgraded from jessie, it > > should already have been present as Priority: standard. All that in > > the absence of any dependencies, of course. > > Unless you happened to be using heirloom-mailx instead of bsd-mailx. > Then in stretch you end up with heirloom-mailx (a transitional dummy > package), and s-nail, but no command named "mailx" or "mail". Unless you > *also* happened to install mailutils or the stretch version of bsd-mailx > (which is possible if you have some other package installed that depends > on "mail-reader" or "mailx", which would drag in bsd-mailx).
That may be so, but I was pointing out how one might have bsd-mailx without remembering having installed it, rather than how one might _not_ have bsd-mailx; you snipped what "That" referred to: >> Except that I don't recall ever having installed bsd-mailx. All my wheezy and jessie systems have bsd-mailx without exception, but I've never installed it myself. One way of investigating would be to grep bsd-mailx in logs like /var/log/apt/history.log and /var/log/aptitude.log etc. Cheers, David.
