Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Replacement for metamail

[Dan Johansson]

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

Thanks, my script is now working (and metamail is unmerged).

Regards,
-- 
Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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