Metamail

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 29 05:23:12 UTC 2010


  On 10/28/2010 09:48 PM, Dave Close wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>>> Certainly, mailcap is used by programs other than metamail. But the
>>> description seems to imply that metamail is the primary user. So, where=
>>> is metamail?
>> metamail hasn't been packaged in a long time....at least before F11.  It
>> is *old* and no longer maintained by anyone.
> Well, then, "anyone" ought to update the info for mailcap -- at least.
> But metamail doesn't need maintenance so long as it still works, and
> I have no reason to think it doesn't work.
Well, if you want to, you can build it yourself from source rpm:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/26/dist/12/size/608480/name/metamail-2.7.52-5.src.rpm


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