[41921] in SIPB bug reports
Re: exmh and the MIME locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
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From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, "bug-sipb@mit.edu" <bug-sipb@mit.edu>
CC: Derrick Kong <starflt@mit.edu>, Derek A Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>,
"Chad P
Brown" <yandros@mit.edu>, Laurence C Stone <lcs@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:53:43 -0500
Subject: Re: exmh and the MIME locker
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Hi,
I used to be very involved with exmh. Unfortunately I switched away from
MH about five years ago, and am not personally interested in maintaining
exmh.
If someone else wants to maintain it they'd be welcome to it...
but I suspect SIPB is not interested in maintaining exmh.
-Jacob
On 1/14/11 12:45 PM, "Jonathan D Reed" <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>As exmh requires metamail, this raises some questions:
>
>a) Is SIPB still interested in maintaining exmh?
>
>b) If yes, then some sort of metamail installation will be required.
>Therefore, is SIPB interested in taking over the MIME locker? Or
>installing metamail in the sipb locker somewhere?
>
>We (IS&T) are going to continue encouraging users away from any MH-based
>solution, however if we have specific info on the future of exmh, that
>would be helpful.
>
