Bug#5221: metamail doesn't install properly

["Larry 'Daffy' Daffner" <vizzie@airmail.net>]

joost witteveen writes:
-> On a different note, in elm, I would very much like to view
-> my Mime encaptulated emails with "less". I set my pager to
-> "less", but the old and new version completely ignore this suggestion.
-> I don't know whether this is intended or not, though.

metamail uses the METAMAIL_PAGER environment variable, rather than the
PAGER envar, because less needs -r to work properly with richtext
messages, and most people don't bother with the -r in their PAGER. Set
METAMAIL_PAGER to "less -r" and it will work.

-Larry

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