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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] lei q: add --mua-cmd switch
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Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> @@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ my %OPTDESC = (
>  
>  'output|o=s' => [ 'DEST',
>  	"destination (e.g. `/path/to/Maildir', or `-' for stdout)" ],
> +'mua-cmd|mua=s' => [ 'COMMAND',
> +	"MUA to run on --output Maildir or mbox (e.g. `mutt -f %f'" ],

I'm wondering if displaying "mutt" in a one-line help message is
showing unnecessary favoritism for a non-standard MUA.

Fwiw, "mailx -f" is POSIX, but only for mbox.  While both
Heirloom mailx and GNU mailutils mailx support Maildir, but
bsd-mailx (the default on Debian, AFAIK) does not...

FreeBSD mailx does not do Maildir, either (tested 12.1 and 11.4).