Re: control/amime-footer-base64

Hey, Ron.

I read the comments of contrib/mlmmj-amime-receive, I see it isn't clear 
there, but I found some hints that I think answer the question.

Looking through the code, as best I can tell mlmmj-amime-receive is a 
pass-through program to grab parameters and send them to 
/usr/bin/altermime and /usr/bin/mlmmj-receive.

And the thing is that the Debian package for MLMMJ doesn't depend, 
recommend, or suggest the altermime package. The MLMMJ README.footers.md 
states that footer support is rudimentary, and non-text footers are 
meant to be passed through alterMIME -- meaning MIME-encoded footers 
require alterMIME.

Looking through the mlmmj-amime-receive code, the execution aborts if 
the file for the alterMIME binary isn't found. So based on this as best 
I can tell amime-footer-base64 is meant to contain Base-64, and MLMMJ 
won't act on it unless altermime is also available.

Now that I know this, I think I'm going to add a "Suggests: altermime" 
on the Debian package for MLMMJ -- this is to that users/admins of the 
package get a "hint" for this, and I'm going to add some text to the 
README.Debian file about it.

    -- Chris

Chris Knadle
[email protected]
Debian maintiner for MLMMJ

On 10/12/25 21:07, Ron Guerin wrote:
>
> Apologies if this is a stupid question...
>
> But what am I supposed to put in
>
> control/amime-footer-base64
>
> When using the contrib/mlmmj-amime-receive script?  Is it plaintext, or should I be Base-64 encoding the contents?
>
> - Ron