nail not available in hardy

[Tyler Willingham]

Binary package hint: nail

Nail does not appear to be available in Hardy Heron. searching debian's package repositories, it appears to have been renamed to heirloom-mailx (http://packages.debian.org/sid/heirloom-mailx). it would be wonderful if this could be included.

[Kissmurphy (ubuntu-kissmurphy)]

Yes, at very handy little utility to include as it makes emailing attachments from scripts very easy.

[Pepo (simon-peter01)]

Yes, lot of develeopers use that. Me too.

[pt123 (pt123)]

Yes please a lot easier than setting up sendmail

[Ryan Lovett (ryan-spacecoaster)]

"Yes, absolutely, I do indeed concur wholeheartedly."

Our users much prefer heirloom-mailx over regular mailx.

[nicolamersi (nicolamersi)]

I'm adding to the chorus
nail was the only way I knew not to add (Yet Another SMTP) to every linux-box
(as I thought to understand was ubuntu policy)
please add it
Thanks

[Christian Bell (cshbell)]

There are many environments in which having a MUA that can specify an external SMTP server is a necessity, and heirloom-mailx (née nail) is the best way to do this. Please add it to the Hardy repositories; it's already in Intrepid.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please follow the backports request procedure to have it added to hardy-backports.

[Shaun Hills (shaunhills)]

Backport requested:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/hardy-backports/+bug/305553

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Setting this bug as Invalid because see comment #8.