cvs commit: ports/mail/metamail Makefile

[Bruce A. Mah]

If memory serves me right, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:45:41PM -0700, Mark Linimon wrote:
> > linimon     2004/04/12 19:45:41 PDT
> >
> >   FreeBSD ports repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     mail/metamail        Makefile
> >   Log:
> >   nectar points out that there are still ports in the tree that depend on
> >   metamail: mail/exmh2 (and thus japanese/exmh2), and mail/rmime.  Since
> >   I am not sure what the development status of those ports are, I am going
> >   to remove the expiration date -- but with some trepidation, leave the
> >   deprecated tag.

One could, of course, just ask the maintainers of these ports.  For
example:

nimitz:bmah% grep MAINTAINER /usr/ports/mail/exmh2/Makefile
MAINTAINER?=    bmah at FreeBSD.org

:-)

> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.25      +0 -1      ports/mail/metamail/Makefile
> 
> Heh, my message was meant to *support* the removal of this port, not
> prevent it :-)
> 
> I thought I was the last exmh user (stopping using it ~1998). :-)

Heh.

I believe (just from skimming the code, but not having tested this)
that exmh only needs metamail for doing base64 and quoted-printable
encoding/decoding of files.  Of those:

1.  The converters/base64 port is applicable.  Relatively recent
-CURRENT and -STABLE have base64 encode/decode utilities in the base
system.

2.  If someone can suggest a quoted-printable encode/decode utility (a
filter would be ideal) in the base system or ports, we could probably
eliminate exmh's metamail dependency altogether.

Bruce.
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