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http://www.unix.com – Hello Unix lovers, I want to know if I can have mailx on linux. I am using redhat 6. My sys admin says that mailx is not availble on linux. I see on my linux system mailx is just a link to /bin/Mail program. I want to install mailx just as it is availble on soaris/HP. When my sys admin reinstalled mailx package, it only installed Mail and mail programs. Code: [root@indlin179 ~]# rpm -ql mailx-8.1.1-44.2.2 /bin/mail /etc/mail.rc /usr/bin/Mail /usr/lib/mail.help /usr/lib/mail.tildehelp /usr/share/man/man1/Mail.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mail.1.gz As I understnad mail and mailx are di (HowTos)

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