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Re: movemail on Debian
From: |
Dave Love |
Subject: |
Re: movemail on Debian |
Date: |
Tue, 20 May 2003 17:59:33 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I'd rather leave it to the movemail maintainer or someone else. [It
> still needs re-writing so the locking mechanism is selectable at
> runtime, as discussed some time ago, which is the reason I don't use
> it.]
>
> I don't know if anyone else will do it. A run-time decision is the
> right thing, but your change would be better than nothing. So could
> you adapt it to the trunk and install it, please?
I've done this, with a heavy heart, but I still don't know for sure
it's right.
> Someone else can always improve it later, if we find someone to do it.
Why isn't movemail maintained with, or integrated into, mailutils? It
would presumably be a trivial job to assemble it from mailutils
components, and then would get things like APOP support automatically
(currently missing and what I need to fetch mail from GNU, for
instance).