[NTLUG:Discuss] How to suppress null message body report from mail

[Neil Aggarwal]

Steve:

I was hoping there was a way to do it without having to compile
my own specific version of the program.

Thanks,
	Neil


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org 
> [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf Of Steve Baker
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 9:16 AM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] How to suppress null message 
> body report from mail
> 
> 
> Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> 
> > Null message body; hope that's ok
> > 
> > Is there a way to suppress generating this message from
> > mail?  I have read the man page but I don't see anything
> > that will help.
> 
> There may be a better way - but if all else fails then:
> 
>    "Use the source Luke."
> 
> It's easy to forget that you have the sources to every program
> on the system.  It should be REALLY easy to find the line in
> the 'mail' program that prints out that message and simply comment
> it out.  Then you can compile your own version of mail (call it
> something else) that'll do the job.
> 
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