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Bug#1120538: heirloom-mailx: Edited cc: header not preserved after ~v

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 > I have some problems parsing your problem.
 > 
 > Please note first that the # comment sign on a line does not
 > create a shell-style comment, the above are all (somewhat
 > ignored, however) errors.

Interesting.  I have reread the man page for heirloom-mailx,
and I did not have much luck finding documentation of the format.

As you may have guessed, my .mailrc is very hold.  I likely wrote my
first .mailrc over 35 years ago.

 > Having said all that i have learned that Heirloom mailx 12.5 is no
 > longer supported in Debian (for quite some time)?  Are you sure
 > you are really using 12.5?

Yes:

   $ heirloom-mailx -V
   12.5 6/20/10

I do have s-nail v14.9.25 installed on my system, but interestingly it
is not offered as an implementation of `mailx`:

  $ update-alternatives --list mailx
  /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
  /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx
  /usr/bin/mail.mailutils
  /usr/bin/mh/mhmail

I'm not sure whether s-nail is considered incompatible with mailx or
if that's just an omission.

 > Note: it MAY depend upon what content you have placed in Cc: --
 > because of the fix for CVE-2014-7844 [1] you may have to set the
 > *expandaddr* variable, you definitely have to do this for S-nail.

I checked this out and no, it's not the issue.  Confirmed via test.

It appears that my best course of action will be to see about
migrating to s-nail.  (I have the "`-a` for attachment" semantics too
deeply embedded into my fingers to wish to migrate to bsd-mailx.)

 > (I know for sure your "8-bit in alias names" is still a hacky
 > solution for S-nail.)

I'm sorry—I don't know what you mean by 8-bit in alias names.
What does that maean?  And What part of my .mailrc suggested
that I am doing it?


Norman

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Bug#1120538: heirloom-mailx: Edited cc: header not preserved after ~v Norman Ramsey <nr@cs.tufts.edu> - 2025-11-11 22:10 +0100
  Bug#1120538: heirloom-mailx: Edited cc: header not preserved after ~v Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> - 2025-11-12 22:30 +0100
    Bug#1120538: heirloom-mailx: Edited cc: header not preserved after ~v Norman Ramsey <nr@cs.tufts.edu> - 2025-11-13 19:10 +0100
      Bug#1120538: heirloom-mailx: Edited cc: header not preserved after ~v Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> - 2025-11-13 22:10 +0100

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