You can uninstall or removes an installed bsd-mailx package itself from Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) through the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get remove bsd-mailx
If you would like to remove bsd-mailx and it's dependent packages which are no longer needed from Ubuntu,
$ sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove bsd-mailx
If you use with purge options to bsd-mailx package all the configuration and dependent packages will be removed.
$ sudo apt-get purge bsd-mailx
If you use purge options along with auto remove, will be removed everything regarding the package, It's really useful when you want to reinstall again.
$ sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove bsd-mailx