Re: nmh dependence on metamail

Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> Sat, 18 May 2013 19:35:44 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exmh.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>OK. Your response helped. I think the reason metamail appears to be required is
>mhn.defaults looks like this
>----------
>#: $Debian: nmh/debian/mhn.defaults,v 1.2 2001/11/08 22:35:00 dsp Exp $
>#:
>mhshow-show-application: %p/usr/bin/metamail -b -p -c 'application/%s' '%F'
>mhshow-show-audio: %p/usr/bin/metamail -b -d -p -c 'audio/%s' -p '%F'
>mhshow-show-image: %p/usr/bin/metamail -b -d -p -c 'image/%s' -p '%F'
>mhshow-show-video: %p/usr/bin/metamail -b -d -p -c 'video/%s' -p '%F'
>mhshow-show-text/html: %p/usr/bin/metamail -b -d -p -c 'text/html' -p '%F'

So ... I don't know who user dsp is, but I will note that according to
the RCS keyword that file is over 12 years old.  The current one doesn't
look anything like that now.  And as far as I can tell, nmh has never
put a reference to metamail in any of it's releases.

--Ken