STDIN discarded when using -A to attach a file

[Tim Bishop]

mail discards STDIN when using -A to attach a file. For example:

echo "My message body." | mail -s "Hello!" -A /some/data <email address hidden>

The file /some/data is attached, but the message body is discarded.

This is at least broken on 18.04.

Debian has fixed this bug and it has been fixed upstream. I expect their patch can be used:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=918806#27

[ergf34 (ergf34)]

This is indeed still a bug, which i have tested in versions 3.5, 3.6 and 3.8.
I reported this bug again on https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?54992

Only NOW it was fixed with the patch on this comment https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?54992#comment9

This patch was applied to v3.8 and confirmed working.

Please can you apply this fix to the repo's of Ubuntu 18.04?

This is actually a major bug when attaching files.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[writer (onino)]

Same or related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mailutils/+bug/1911894?!