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Date:      Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:30:59 -0500
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/metamail Makefile
Message-ID:  <20040413003059.GA16303@lum.celabo.org>
In-Reply-To: <200404122159.i3CLxfgU062180@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200404122159.i3CLxfgU062180@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 02:59:41PM -0700, Mark Linimon wrote:
> linimon     2004/04/12 14:59:41 PDT
> 
>   FreeBSD ports repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     mail/metamail        Makefile 
>   Log:
>   Although it pains me to do this (look at the listing of the directory
>   as to why :-) ), the distfile survey reports that Nathaniel's original
>   site for this software is long gone.  A Google search shows the mirror
>   that I added to be the best option, and that the most recent distfile is
>   from 1994.  The only other links refer to security problems; although
>   all the known ones have been fixed, Debian claims that:
>   
>     We have been devoting some effort to trying to avoid shipping metamail
>     in the future.  It became unmaintainable and these are probably not the
>     last of the vulnerabilities.
>   
>   Accordingly, mark it as 'deprecated'.  If anyone is using this code,
>   they should prepare to adopt the port and address any security concerns
>   going forward.
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.24      +4 -1      ports/mail/metamail/Makefile

Thanks, Mark.  My plea for a maintainer

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20040218215305.GA47727_madman.celabo.org%40ns.sol.net

has long expired.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org



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