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
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