#693686 mailutils: "/usr/bin/mailutils-config call mu, but mu is mu-tool"

Package:
mailutils
Source:
mailutils
Description:
GNU mailutils utilities for handling mail
Submitter:
Daniel
Date:
2012-11-19 10:12:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#693686#5
Date:
2012-11-19 09:51:21 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

the /usr/bin/mailutils-config script call the mu tool but there was renamed as mu-tool and does not exist.
to solve this problem, call

sed -i 's/mu /mu-tool /' $(which mailutils-config).

More detailed description and solution was written by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>:

After installing libmailutils0-dev, check if the `mu' utility is
renamed.  Try running `mu --help'.  If it shows

   Usage: mu [OPTION...] COMMAND [CMDOPTS]
   mu -- GNU Mailutils multi-purpose tool.
   ...

then everything is Ok and you can go on configuring mailfromd.  If not,
try `mu-tool --help'.  If it gives you the above output, then check
whether mailutils-config refers to it.  To do so, run mailutils-config
manually.  If its output reads:

  This is a deprecated interface to GNU Mailutils configuration facilities.
  It will be removed in future versions.  Please, consider using these
  alternatives instead:

         Traditional usage          |   Use instead
      ------------------------------+-------------------
      mailutils-config --compile    | mu cflags
      mailutils-config --link       | mu ldflags
      mailutils-config --info       | mu info
      mailutils-config --query      | mu query
      mailutils-config --query=FILE | mu query -f FILE

  For more information, try `mu --help'.

then patch it using the following command:

  sed -i 's/mu /mu-tool /' $(which mailutils-config)

Special thanks to Sergey.

Best regards,

Daniel


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