[41923] in SIPB bug reports
Re: exmh and the MIME locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Jan 14 15:11:02 2011
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From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>,
"bug-sipb\@mit.edu" <bug-sipb@MIT.EDU>, Derrick Kong <starflt@MIT.EDU>,
"Chad P Brown" <yandros@MIT.EDU>, Laurence C Stone <lcs@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: exmh and the MIME locker
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:10:53 -0500
In-Reply-To: <28AFD535-5D69-48AB-AF4B-7C564A3CBEEA@mit.edu> (Jonathan Reed's
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I use Gnus and have been using Gnus for more than a decade. You might
want to ask the SIPB in general if anyone is even USING exmh? Maybe
there is some way to add a "hey, I've been used!" phone-home in the
startup script?
As for the metamail stuff.. *shrugs* It's too bad that it's no longer
available. There really isn't a replacement out there. :(
-derek
Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 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is actively interested in maintaining it, I'd ask that it display a message upon launch to users stating that it's no longer actively maintained, and encouraging users to seek out a supported e-mail client (with Pine and Evolution being the ideal candidates, as they can read MH mailboxes).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,
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>
>
>
--
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
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