Bug 37090 – Metamail should be a dependency of sylpheed-claws

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Keith Edmunds 2004-01-03 04:14:00 UTC]

Sylpheed-claws uses metamail to open attachments, but metamail is not a dependency of SC. This is why none of my attachments have opened automatically!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.23)
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System uname: 2.4.23 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://gs001.rg2.tiger-computing.com/gentoo-portage"
USE="X apache2 apm avi berkdb bonobo cdr cjk crypt cups dga doc dvd esd ethereal
evo fax foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib java
jikes jpeg kde ldap libg++ libgda libwww lids mad maildir matrox mdb motif
mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl oav odbc opengl oss pam pcmcia pda pdflib
perl png pnp postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sasl scanner
sdl slang slp spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tetex tiff truetype trusted usb
x86 xface xml xml2 xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2004-01-12 19:58:04 UTC]

Could you give me some details what the problem is ? I don't have metamail and can use SC just fine, also I don't see any change with metamail (not saying that there is none, but I can't find one).

[Comment 2 Keith Edmunds 2004-01-13 00:03:46 UTC]

SC uses metamail to identify which program to use to open MIME attachments. Right-click on the icon representing, say, a PDF document and select 'open'. Nothing will happen without metamail; instead you'll need to use 'open with' and select a PDF viewer. So long as a line similar to "application/pdf; xpdf '%s'" exists in /etc/mailcap then - with metamail installed - merely selecting 'open' for an attachment will open it.

Does that help?

[Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2004-01-14 20:19:55 UTC]

fixed in cvs

[Comment 4 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2004-01-14 20:26:36 UTC]

actually repoman said no, metamail has no keywords for sparc+alpha

[Comment 5 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2004-01-14 20:27:45 UTC]

arch people, can you look at net-mail/metamail ?

[Comment 6 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-01-15 07:15:05 UTC]

all set on alpha, sparc's turn

[Comment 7 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2004-01-15 16:25:19 UTC]

stable on sparc

[Comment 8 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2004-01-16 14:19:34 UTC]

committed now