Package: muttprint
Version: 0.73-7
Severity: normal

Dear Rene Engelhard,

First of all, thanks for taking care of muttprint in Debian for over 15 years!

I saved a raw multipart/alternative (both text/plain and text/html) email
message in /tmp/mail.msg; ran

 muttprint -p - -f - <mail.msg >mail.ps

and ran evince mail.ps.  The result is not what I expected.

I feel these days, muttprint is getting a bit stale.  It is not suitable
to use with modern email:

- it keeps stuff like "Subject: =?utf-8?Q?blah blah?=" as-is and does not know
  how to deal with this encoding of non-ascii stuff in Subject headers.

- it keeps stuff like

 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="B_ALT_59e07adc16e56"
 Sender:  <prod10...@srv8.delcomsubdomain.com>

 This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
 Your email application may not support this format.

 --B_ALT_59e07adc16e56
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

 Beste Joost Baal-Ilic,
 
 --B_ALT_59e07adc16e56
 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
 <p>Beste Joost Baal-Ilic,</p>
 
 --B_ALT_59e07adc16e56--

 just as-is and does not choose e.g. to just skip the html alternative.


I feel these lacking features should either

- get added
- get properly and clearly documented.  (The package Description currently has
  "Muttprint formats the printing of Mutt and other mail clients to be as
  pretty as the printing of Mozilla or Kmail."; I don't think that's still 
true...)
- or the package should get removed from Debian

.  How do you feel about this?

Thanks again, Bye,

Joost


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=sr_RS.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sr_RS.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to sr_RS), LANGUAGE=sr_RS.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to 
sr_RS)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages muttprint depends on:
ii  libtext-iconv-perl         1.7-5+b4
ii  perl                       5.24.1-3+deb9u2
ii  texlive-fonts-recommended  2016.20170123-5
ii  texlive-latex-extra        2016.20170123-5
ii  texlive-latex-recommended  2016.20170123-5

Versions of packages muttprint recommends:
ii  libtimedate-perl         2.3000-2
ii  mailutils [mail-reader]  1:3.1.1-1
ii  mutt [mail-reader]       1.7.2-1
ii  s-nail [mail-reader]     14.8.16-1

Versions of packages muttprint suggests:
pn  compface                         <none>
pn  dialog                           <none>
ii  imagemagick                      8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u1
ii  imagemagick-6.q16 [imagemagick]  8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u1
ii  lynx [news-reader]               2.8.9dev11-1
pn  muttprint-manual                 <none>
pn  ospics                           <none>
pn  psutils                          <none>
ii  texlive-fonts-extra              2016.20170123-5

-- no debconf information

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