mailx: vi/emacs problem

[Chris Rende]

I am having a very strange problem with mailx that I can't figure out!

When I give mailx the 'vi' command, it replies:

emacs: not found

or something like that. (I don't have emacs on the system).

I can't figure out why the 'vi' command is trying to call emacs.
In my environment, the shell variable EDITOR is set to 'vi'.
In my .mailrc, I have a line like this: set EDITOR=vi

Why is mailx trying to call emacs?!?! Where else can I look?

car.
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