The elm errata package was for some reason built using metamail hacks. Unfortunately the hacks themselves are buggy (trivial demo - read a mime email, while reading it hit ^C. Now the arrow keys dont work to move up/down mails) Secondly metamail is how shall I put it "not exactly the most secure code on the planet" Several of the metamail scripts are insecure, and the showexternal one appears to be quite useful for third party mailbombing setups I wont ask why we include stuff like showaudio which requires you ghave a bell labs telephone !
These sounds like bugs in metamail, not in elm - reassigning.
Reassigning back to ELM. The basic problem is the metamail hacks got put into ELM. I will open a new bug with a copy of the metamail specific errors. Either way the metamail patch is broken - it breaks arrow keys, redraw on bounce, viewing headers on spam and a few other things
Reassigning back to elm again. The base problem is the broken patch someone merged into elm
Is this OK in elm 2.5.6?
Providing you built the package from the spec file which didnt include metamail then should be. Im running the 2.5.6 built without that change and its behaving fine and not using messamail at all
If metamail is going to be left on by default, then there should be clear comments in the spec file on how to disable it. I tried commenting out the Requires field, and I tried changing "d_mime" in the configuration patch to "undef". Neither solution fixed the problem, I guess I'm just dumb - I ended up performing an 'rpm -e metamail' to force ELM back to the desired behavior. Metamail is broken in other ways not even listed above. For example: View any message of sufficient length with metamail enabled, and the headers to the message scroll off of the window. Even if the user types 'h' specifically to display all headers, the headers roll away because they aren't counted along with the message content. This behavior is inconsistent with ELM's behavior when metamail is not enabled.
Additionally this also seems to affect the 7.0 update version of elm. BTW once you remove metamail then trying to send an attachment crashes elm with a segmentation violation.
elm is now deprecated.