>Ubuntu 12.04 includes a package for nmh but none for metamail. Someone >noted this in a bug report. Debian seems to have abandoned metamail. >In Ubuntu 10.xx I was able to make it work from source. >The source that I have for metamail 2.7 will not compile on my upgraded >system and I am not knowledgeable enough to try to fix it.
Dale, There's no need to send something to nmh-workers, exmh-users, _and_ me, because I'm on both lists :-) Let me explain the state of the world as I know it: - nmh has no dependencies on metamail. Zero, zip, nada. If a packaging system lists nmh as having a dependency on metamail, that's an error. - exmh does have a dependency on metamail, sort of. It uses mmencode to decode quoted-printable and base64. It can use another program (which I forget the name of but comes on some Linux systems) instead. It also has an internal decoder for those things, but in my experience that has a file descriptor leak (that may be fixed). I really think exmh needs a new release that removes any mention of metamail, because that package is really long in the tooth nowadays. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
