From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:20:47 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: proposal: remove support for gmime2.4
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proposal: remove support for gmime2.4
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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