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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
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Followup to:  <20040806104026.GD24158@DervishD>
By author:    DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> > BTW: I am using 'mailx' which is _the_ official mail reader from
> > the POSIX standard......
> 
>     POSIX may specify 'mailx' as the name of the official mail
> reader, I really don't know, but your 'mailx' is screwing the
> threads.
> 

POSIX specifies interfaces, not implementations.  It doesn't matter if
one particular implementation conforms to the POSIX mailx interface
for mail submission if its other interface (RFC 2821/2822) is broken.

	-hpa