Information about the package, mailx, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The mailx package is designed for, Enhanced implementation of the mailx command.
Package Name:
mailx
Summary:
Enhanced implementation of the mailx command
Description:
Mailx is an enhanced mail command, which provides the functionality of the POSIX mailx command, as well as SysV mail and Berkeley Mail (from which it is derived). Additionally to the POSIX features, mailx can work with Maildir/ e-mail storage format (as well as mailboxes), supports IMAP, POP3 and SMTP procotols (including over SSL) to operate with remote hosts, handles mime types and different charsets. There are a lot of other useful features, see mailx(1). And as its ancient analogues, mailx can be used as a mail script language, both for sending and receiving mail. Besides the "mailx" command, this package provides "mail" and "Mail" (which should be compatible with its predecessors from the mailx-8.x source), as well as "nail" (the initial name of this project).
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
12.4
Release:
8.el6_6
Size:
452 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
BSD with advertising and MPLv1.1
Control the mailx package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install mailx
This command will install mailx on the server.
yum remove mailx
This command will un-install mailx on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mailx, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove mailx
This command will un-install mailx on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove mailx when using the -y flag.
yum update mailx
This command will update mailx to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mailx, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update mailx
This command will update mailx to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove mailx when using the -y flag.
yum info mailx
This command will show you core information about the mailx package.
yum deplist mailx
This command will show you the dependencies for mailx. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update mailx
This command will check if there is an update waiting on mailx. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.