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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-mail/metamail
From:       "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2 () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2022-11-24 21:53:50
Message-ID: robbat2-20221124T213325-140572439Z () orbis-terrarum ! net
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On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 01:22:11AM +0000, Sam James wrote:
> # Pascal Jäger <pascal.jaeger@leimstift.de> (2022-11-24)
> # No maintainer, last release in 1994. Fails to build
> # with clang-16. Runtime crash in certain conditions.
> # Removal on 2022-12-23.
> # Bugs #549922 #713492 #731256 #875464 #882263
> # Removal Bug: #882631
> net-mail/metamail
Hi!

Some of the tooling in here is common in procmail recipes. While i'm not
sad to see metamail go, I suspect there might be some surprising
usecases that need fixing.

metamail used to be very common with procmail recipes.

Two binaries stand out, and if there's anybody who runs into this
removal being a problem, these are probably cases that could use fixes.

mimencode:
https://gist.github.com/robbat2/50f8c5b51fcb7f19271545f662d9ccd5#file-foo-procmailrc-L21-L40
This recipe had a bonus that it made the mail on disk possibly to
trivially grep, whereas if it was still base64, it wouldn't have
matched. Probably possible to replace with a simple script.

metasend:
Good way to send data/files from the commandline while controlling the
MIME structure. This was sometimes used to encapsulate an entire
incoming mail in procmail and resend it. Harder to replace.

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