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On Sunday 22 January 2006 11.11, Duncan wrote: |
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> Dan Johansson posted <200601221032.30979.Dan.Johansson@×××.nu>, excerpted |
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> below, on Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:32:30 +0100: |
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> > I am looking for a replacement to net-mail/metamail due to the fact that |
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> > splitmail dies with a "Segmentation fault" on my AMD64 box (See bug: |
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> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116084). Can someone suggest some |
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> > other package with the same functionality (send binary files from the |
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> > command line) that is stable, and runs, on AMD64. |
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> Try app-text/uudeview. I happen to have just finished merging it and |
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> creating a script using it that allows me to send attachments with PAN |
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> (it doesn't on its own). uudeview includes uuenview as well, which can |
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> encode, and mail or post to a newsgroup if desired, in all sorts of |
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> encoding formats, from the obsolete xxencode, to the near-obsolete |
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> uuencode, to MIME/quoted-printable and MIME/base64, to yEnc (newsgroup |
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> only, as yEnc isn't mail-safe). |
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> It can do multi-part mails too, just give it a line-count. |
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> uuenview/uudeview are coommand line. There's a tcltk USE flag, however, |
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> which controls whether a tk based X/GUI application called xdeview is |
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> installed with the package. |
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Thanks, my script is now working (and metamail is unmerged). |
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Regards, |
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Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> |
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