[bug-mailutils] Re: movemail on Debian

[Alain Magloire]

> 
>     >     Why isn't movemail maintained with, or integrated into, mailutils?
>     >
>     > I am not sure what that would mean.  Could you explain?
> 
>     I'm not sure what needs explaining.
> 
> I had trouble seeing how mail-utils.el could do movemail's job.
> (movemail needs to be setuid on many systems.)  Now I see you are
> talking about a separate GNU package called mailutils.
> 
> It would make sense for functionality like movemail to be in
> mailutils.  But if it were only in mailutils, the practical drawback
> is that they Emacs would not fully work unless mailutils is installed.
> 
> Or it could be shared between Emacs and mailutils, but then
> there would be a tendency to forget and they would diverge.
> 
> Alain, what do you think?

I would say, at this point in time, that both should have a version,
(on the mailutils side, we will work in provide a version of movemail,
probably the same code).
When mailutils package will be more widespread/known then we could
remove the ownership of movemail from Emacs.

Mailutils is still in 0.x releases(getting better 'tough, thanks to
Sergey, jeff etc ..) so it would be, in my opinion, premature to
do this kind of move.

-- 
alain