• [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-mail/metamail

    From Sam James@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 24 02:30:01 2022
    # 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

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  • From Robin H. Johnson@21:1/5 to Sam James on Thu Nov 24 23:10:01 2022
    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.

    --
    Robin Hugh Johnson
    Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer
    E-Mail : robbat2@gentoo.org
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