Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

[Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>]

Hi Steve!

You wrote:

> I object to this ITP.  The software in question is both trivial and
> non-free.  Those features which are not a subset of mime-construct
> (<[🔎] 20030629232343.GA14775@taz.net.au>) are either irrelevant to Debian
> systems (direct SMTP-based mailing) or a bad idea (encouraging users to
> store pgp passphrases on disk).  With a license that prohibits bug fixes
> or improvements, including this program in the Debian archive will not
> benefit our users.

I agree.  I don't think this piece of software should be in the archive,
not even in non-free.

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Kind regards,
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