Would like to have grepmail back

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I just upgraded my systems from 15.5 and 15.6 to 16.0, and was a little surprised to find that ‘grepmail’ is missing from them. I use this as part of my inbound mail processing, so my filters are a little borked right now. It would be nice to have grepmail back as an installable package.

I tried searching through the packaging service, and I can see the Leap-15 information there, but Leap-16 seems to be missing, and I can see no evidence that it was rejected. If it’s rejected, that’s fine, I’ll find another way, but if so, it would be nice to have a list of rejected never-gonna-have packages so I can avoid searching too hard for them.

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Looks like it’s in one of the developer’s repos for 16.0 showing an issue with fulfilling a requirement. It may well come back once that issue is addressed.

In the interim, you could use distrobox to run a 15.6 container that would let you continue to use it.

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OK; thanks. For anyone who stumbles into this in the meantime, I just did “cpan install Mail:Mbox:MessageParser” and then extracted grepmail from github and copied it to /usr/local/bin. Works fine as-is, at least for my purposes.

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