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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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Subject: proposal: remove support for gmime2.4
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It seems no very recent system has gmime2.4. I guess several of these
gmime2.4 only code paths are both security critical (e.g. in crypto.c)
and mostly untested.

Is there good reason to keep supporting gmime 2.4?

d