[41922] in SIPB bug reports
Re: exmh and the MIME locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Jan 14 12:57:52 2011
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Subject: Re: exmh and the MIME locker
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Derek A Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>, "Chad P Brown" <yandros@mit.edu>,
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To: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@mit.edu>
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If it turns out that nobody is actively interested in maintaining it, =
I'd ask that it display a message upon launch to users stating that it's =
no longer actively maintained, and encouraging users to seek out a =
supported e-mail client (with Pine and Evolution being the ideal =
candidates, as they can read MH mailboxes).
-Jon
On Jan 14, 2011, at 12:53 PM, Jacob Morzinski wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> If someone else wants to maintain it they'd be welcome to it...
> but I suspect SIPB is not interested in maintaining exmh.
>=20
> -Jacob
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> On 1/14/11 12:45 PM, "Jonathan D Reed" <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote:
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>> As exmh requires metamail, this raises some questions:
>>=20
>> a) Is SIPB still interested in maintaining exmh?
>>=20
>> 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?
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>=20
