Bug#4339: no free pine package available

[Buddha Buck <bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu>]

> I rarely use pine myself (usually only when I have to read some
> MIME-encrypted mail :-), but I know it's quite popular.  It would
> be a pity if we can't ship a MIME-aware mailer with the standard
> distribution.

How odd...

I seem to have a /usr/bin/exmh, and exmh isn't in my /usr/local/bin.  I 
consider exmh to be the most MIME-aware mailer I've had the pleasure to 
use.  If it isn't in my /usr/local/bin, ., ~/bin, or 
/usr/local/openwin.bin, but I'm using it on my system, then it must be 
part of the Debian distribution, or my system is really messed up...

Exmh is an optional package in the mail section.  According to dselect, 
it depends on tk41, tcl75, mh, and metamail.  Metamail is a general 
package to handle MIME types unknown to your mailer.  Most of the 
mailers out there (including pine) use metamail transparantly.  
However, exmh is very MIME-aware on its own.  It will automatically 
display enriched-text correctly, handle multipart MIME messages well 
(both multipart/mixed and multipart/alternative), and integrates well 
with PGP.

> 
> Marek
> 

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