Missing /bin/mail

[AGMS]

/bin/mail is in BeOS and is a quite useful command line tool for mailing log files and other automated reports to oneself. The source code for mail.cpp is indeed in Git, it's just not getting compiled and included in the Haiku image. Could someone with Jam experience please add it?

[phoudoin]

... and refresh the code a bit: there is still reference to OBOS as this code is 13 years old ;-)

[lelldorin]

Yes it is usefull but a backdoor for people who want steel your data. in zeta times i discuses this because programs can send mails with data without a message to the user. In beos the same. This security problem need to be fixed before mail found his way back into haiku!? A server will be fine who check outgoing data an drops a message to the user (do you want to allow...?)

[axeld]

This is really not an issue: *any* code that runs on your system can do anything. You even run all apps with root privileges. Having second thoughts about adding mail for security concerns is like insisting on keeping a door closed without a wall around it.

[waddlesplash]

Fixed in hrev50045.

[phoudoin]

Please remove reference to "OBOS" in /bin/mail displayed text, as this code predate Haiku renaming.

Ooops, sorry, my bad, I didn't saw the complete changeset.

[markh]

While it is now added to the image (thanks for that!) it is still missing part of the BeOS functionality mentioned in #12609. I see that that issue has been set to owner nobody, but I do hope someone will have a look at it.