Hi all, mail-client/muttng currently sits in the tree as some sort of orphan. It used to be a fork of Mutt, having many patches applied, features added and code cleaned up. However, at a certain point the project died, one of the main developers went back to Mutt and applied his patches there. Currently most of these patches are applied in Mutt's sources, or patches have been made to work with Mutt. Some have even improved a lot (e.g. SMTP support is native in Mutt, while it uses libesmtp in muttng).
Current state of muttng is a bit vague. It tries to be a collection of patches against the latest development version of Mutt. However, since the latest svn release of muttng, I have never updated the package, as I don't really know what can or should be released from it. The result is IMO bitrot, and bugs/security holes are not fixed. Additionally, Mutt seems to have superceeded muttng by now. For this reason I would like to drop muttng from the tree (in a normal procedure, of course). I know at least one Gentoo (Security) dev seems to use muttng instead of mutt currently. If someone knows how life for muttng should continue, feel free to take over the package. If you are using muttng now, consider moving to the latest Mutt. Please speak up now if there are major reasons to keep muttng in the tree, despite being unmaintained and out of date. -- Fabian Groffen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
