pfr
Is it possible to use /usr/bin or an already existing directory so to keep the filesystem as clean as possible?
Sure: there's no program called hmail
, so you can drop it into /usr/bin
, but, you should be aware that that's what /usr/local/bin
is traditionally for: user created or installed, scripts and programs (which is also why it's already in the PATH
). You might, in due course, write/install more binaries for your user and/or yourself. Cleaner, actually, I feel to put these into their own directory, rather than mixing it in with the system stuff.
In fact, I like NetBSD's /usr/pkg/bin
and /usr/local/bin
split better than FreeBSD's all-extras-in-/usr/local/bin
scheme. There, I have to put my locally-written code into /opt/
, or some-such, if I want to keep things separate.
Another thing I just discovered, and happen to like now in NetBSD, is this: both the mailx(1)
and Heirloom mailx(1)
man-pages on both BSDs reference the Mail Reference Manual
, but, (for a system which claims to have comprehensive documentation,) FreeBSD doesn't have it. Anywhere. (I looked for it because I vaguely recall reading it on FreeBSD back when it was at version 2.2. They must've removed it in the interim.)
NetBSD still has it. It won't cover IMAP/POP3/SSL, etc, but it is a tutorial reference rather than simply a man-page. You can read in here on your local system (if you installed the misc
distribution set):
/usr/share/doc/reference/ref1/mail/