[debbugs-tracker] bug#12646: closed (24.2.50; Eshell problem with mailx(1))

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> 24.2.50; Eshell problem with mailx(1)
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> Sun, 14 Oct 2012 13:08:26 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux)
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> Since updating my openSUSE system from 12.1 to 12.2, I cannot read email
> by invoking mailx from the eshell prompt:
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> Welcome to the Emacs shell
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> /data/steve/lib/emacs/gtk $ mail
> Heirloom mailx version 12.5 7/5/10.  Type ? for help.
> "/var/spool/mail/steve": 1 message 1 unread
> >U  1 address@hidden Sat Oct 13 23:53  109/4392  Re: bug#12612: 24.2.50; F
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> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
> -  (press RETURN)
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> At EOF
> ? 
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> This happens both with my Emacs build from the current trunk and with
> openSUSE's official build of 23.3.
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> With openSUSE 12.1, which contains the same version of mailx as 12.2, I
> also get the warning but after typing RETURN, the top of the mail is
> displayed and I can scroll through it by repeatedly typing RET.  This is
> openSUSE's official build of 23.3 and with a build of 24.1 (I can't test
> the current trunk on openSUSE 12.1 without rebuilding Emacs, which is
> currently rather inconvenient).  Both versions of openSUSE use the same
> version of mailx, and in both the value of $TERM in eshell is dumb.  If
> this is not an Emacs or Eshell problem, what could account for it?
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> In GNU Emacs 24.2.50.3 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.4)
>  of 2012-10-14 on rosalinde
> Bzr revision: 110543 address@hidden
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11203000
> System Description:     openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64)
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> Configured using:
>  `configure '--without-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'CFLAGS=-g -O0''
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>   default enable-multibyte-characters: t
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> Stephen Berman <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Welcome to the Emacs shell
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> > /data/steve/lib/emacs/gtk $ mail
> > Heirloom mailx version 12.5 7/5/10.  Type ? for help.
> > "/var/spool/mail/steve": 1 message 1 unread
> >>U  1 address@hidden Sat Oct 13 23:53  109/4392  Re: bug#12612: 24.2.50; F
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> > WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
> > -  (press RETURN)
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> This is a bug in less, which crashes here.  As a workaround, disable the
> pager.
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> Andreas.
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