converters/mmencode 2.7_1 DragonFly

Translate to and from mail-oriented encoding formats

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: MIT
Categories: converters
Package size: 9.2 KiB, 16.7 KiB installed

Description

From the man page:

The mimencode program simply converts a byte stream into (or out of) one of the standard mail encoding formats defined by MIME, the proposed standard for internet multimedia mail formats. Such an encoding is necessary because binary data cannot be sent through the mail. The encodings under- stood by mimencode are preferable to the use of the uuencode/uudecode pro- grams, for use in mail, in several respects that were important to the authors of MIME.

Mmencode is part of metamail, and can be installed as part of that package. It is provided here as an independent package since some programs require mmencode only and hence you can avoid having to install the entire metalmail package when not required.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

DragonFly

converters/mmencode

2.7_1

FreeBSD

converters/mmencode

2.7_1

Install

Binary package:

pkg install mmencode

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/converters/mmencode && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The mmencode port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing