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From: Mike Civil <mike@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] net-mail/metamail - removal
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:49:20
Message-Id: 69b92526-69d7-6a68-d84f-d18f894cf1a0@duncodin.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] net-mail/metamail - removal by thelma@sys-concept.com
1 On 13/12/2022 21:01, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
2 > I just noticed that "net-mail/metamail" is masked and scheduled for
3 > removal 12/23/2022
4 >
5 > I'm using "mailto" which is part of metamail.
6 > Is there any alternative package that contain this function "mailto"
7 >
8 Frankly metamail has been dead for decades - the last release was nearly
9 30 years ago.
10
11 If you want to send MIME-encoded email from a command line then just
12 about any normal mail client such as "mail" from GNU's mailutils package
13 (Gentoo: net-mail/mailutils) should suffice.