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Re: movemail |
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Mon, 07 Aug 2017 19:46:57 +0100 |
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On 1 Aug 2017, Eli Zaretskii told this:
>> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 21:19:52 -0400
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>> Should we delete the movemail program, given these problems with it?
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> No, because non-Posix systems have no choice but use it. Gnu
> Mailutils are blatantly Posix-centric and don't build on anything
> else.
Also, if you disable POP, movemail is still used to shuffle mail from
one place to another on the local filesystem. (It just doesn't do any
network access any more.)
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