From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: movemail
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 19:46:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9rrusf2.fsf@esperi.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a83k0yu5.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 01 Aug 2017 06:08:18 +0300")
On 1 Aug 2017, Eli Zaretskii told this:
>> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
>> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 21:19:52 -0400
>>
>> Should we delete the movemail program, given these problems with it?
>
> No, because non-Posix systems have no choice but use it. Gnu
> Mailutils are blatantly Posix-centric and don't build on anything
> else.
Also, if you disable POP, movemail is still used to shuffle mail from
one place to another on the local filesystem. (It just doesn't do any
network access any more.)
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-07 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-01 1:19 movemail Richard Stallman
2017-08-01 3:08 ` movemail Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-01 16:18 ` movemail Paul Eggert
2017-08-01 18:46 ` movemail Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-02 7:35 ` movemail Tim Cross
2017-08-02 8:11 ` movemail Paul Eggert
2017-08-02 17:34 ` movemail Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-03 2:17 ` movemail Paul Eggert
2017-08-03 19:47 ` movemail Richard Stallman
2017-08-07 18:46 ` Nix [this message]
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