Does anyone use mail/demime

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Mon Oct 17 23:43:48 UTC 2011


On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:

> Matthias Andree wrote on 18.10.2011 00:14:
>> Am 17.10.2011 04:00, schrieb Glen Barber:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> As it stands now, the mail/demime port has no "upstream", and
>>> development seems to have stopped at least 2 years ago.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone use this?
>>> 
>>> If so, would someone like to _become_ "upstream" and revive this piece
>>> of software?
>>> 
>>> Otherwise, I'll mark this port as deprecated in 1 week and have it
>>> scheduled for removal 1 month afterwards.
>> 
>> Do we have a suitable alternative that we can recommend?
>
> maildrop, that was often mentioned on official site:
> http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html

This clamav-users thread talks about using maildrop's reformime along 
with uudeview (in ports at converters/uudeview).  As a non-user of 
either, I don't know whether that combination replaces demime easily or 
completely.

http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20030814.114335.e5d0c404.en.html


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