Mark metamail.el as obsolete (Bug#41388)

The metamail package was last released in 1994, and has been removed
from most GNU/Linux distributions due to being buggy and unmaintained.

* lisp/mail/metamail.el: Move from here...
* lisp/obsolete/metamail.el: ...to here.
* etc/NEWS: Mention its obsoletion.

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+;;; metamail.el --- Metamail interface for GNU Emacs
+
+;; Copyright (C) 1993, 1996, 2001-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+;; Author: Masanobu UMEDA <umerin@mse.kyutech.ac.jp>
+;; Keywords: mail, news, mime, multimedia
+;; Obsolete-since: 28.1
+
+;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+
+;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+;; (at your option) any later version.
+
+;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;; along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+;;; Commentary:
+
+;; Note: Metamail does not have all the options which are compatible with
+;; the environment variables.  For that reason, metamail.el has to
+;; hack the environment variables.  In addition, there is no way to
+;; display all header fields without extra informative body messages
+;; which are suppressed by the "-q" option.
+
+;; The idea of using metamail to process MIME messages is from
+;; gnus-mime.el by Spike <Spike@world.std.com>.
+
+;;; Code:
+
+(defvar rmail-current-message)
+(defvar rmail-message-vector)
+
+(defgroup metamail nil
+  "Metamail interface for Emacs."
+  :group 'mail
+  :group 'processes)
+
+(defcustom metamail-program-name "metamail"
+  "Metamail program name."
+  :type 'string
+  :group 'metamail)
+
+(defcustom metamail-mailer-name "emacs"
+  "Mailer name set to MM_MAILER environment variable."
+  :type 'string
+  :group 'metamail)
+
+(defvar metamail-environment '("KEYHEADS=*" "MM_QUIET=1")
+  "Environment variables passed to `metamail'.
+It must be a list of strings that have the format ENVVARNAME=VALUE.
+It is not expected to be altered globally by `set' or `setq'.
+Instead, change its value temporary using `let' or `let*' form.")
+
+(defcustom metamail-switches '("-x" "-d" "-z")
+  "Switches for `metamail' program.
+`-z' is required to remove zap file.
+It is not expected to be altered globally by `set' or `setq'.
+Instead, change its value temporary using `let' or `let*' form.
+`-m MAILER' argument is automatically generated from the
+`metamail-mailer-name' variable."
+  :type '(repeat (string :tag "Switch"))
+  :group 'metamail)
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun metamail-interpret-header ()
+  "Interpret a header part of a MIME message in current buffer.
+Its body part is not interpreted at all."
+  (interactive)
+  (save-excursion
+    (let* ((buffer-read-only nil)
+	   (metamail-switches		;Inhibit processing an empty body.
+	    (append metamail-switches '("-c" "text/plain" "-E" "7bit")))
+	   (end (progn
+		  (goto-char (point-min))
+		  (search-forward "\n\n" nil 'move)
+		  ;; An extra newline is inserted by metamail if there
+		  ;; is no body part.  So, insert a dummy body by
+		  ;; itself.
+		  (insert "\n")
+		  (point))))
+      (metamail-region (point-min) end nil nil 'nodisplay)
+      ;; Remove an extra newline inserted by myself.
+      (goto-char (point-min))
+      (if (search-forward "\n\n\n" nil t)
+	  (delete-char -1))
+      )))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun metamail-interpret-body (&optional viewmode nodisplay)
+  "Interpret a body part of a MIME message in current buffer.
+Optional argument VIEWMODE specifies the value of the
+EMACS_VIEW_MODE environment variable (defaulted to 1).
+Optional argument NODISPLAY non-nil means buffer is not
+redisplayed as output is inserted.
+Its header part is not interpreted at all."
+  (interactive "p")
+  (save-excursion
+    (let ((contype nil)
+	  (encoding nil)
+	  (end (progn
+		 (goto-char (point-min))
+		 (search-forward "\n\n" nil t)
+		 (point))))
+      ;; Find Content-Type and Content-Transfer-Encoding from the header.
+      (save-restriction
+	(narrow-to-region (point-min) end)
+	(setq contype
+	      (or (mail-fetch-field "Content-Type") "text/plain"))
+	(setq encoding
+	      (or (mail-fetch-field "Content-Transfer-Encoding") "7bit")))
+      ;; Interpret the body part only.
+      (let ((metamail-switches		;Process body part only.
+	     (append metamail-switches
+		     (list "-b" "-c" contype "-E" encoding))))
+	(metamail-region end (point-max) viewmode nil nodisplay))
+      ;; This mode specific hack is no longer appropriate in mbox Rmail.
+      ;; Pre-mbox, we have just modified the actual folder, so we
+      ;; update the message-vector with the new end position of the
+      ;; current message.  In mbox Rmail, all we have done is modify a
+      ;; display copy of the message.  Note also that point-max is a
+      ;; marker in the wrong buffer: the message-vector contains
+      ;; markers in rmail-view-buffer (which is not in rmail-mode).
+      ;; So this hack actually breaks the message-vector.
+      ;; If you're calling this on the actual rmail-view-buffer (or a
+      ;; non-swapped rmail-buffer), you would still need this hack.
+      ;; But you're not going to do that.
+;;;      (cond ((eq major-mode 'rmail-mode)
+;;;	     ;; Adjust the marker of this message if in Rmail mode buffer.
+;;;	     (set-marker (aref rmail-message-vector (1+ rmail-current-message))
+;;;			 (point-max))))
+      )))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun metamail-buffer (&optional viewmode buffer nodisplay)
+  "Process current buffer through `metamail'.
+Optional argument VIEWMODE specifies the value of the
+EMACS_VIEW_MODE environment variable (defaulted to 1).
+Optional argument BUFFER specifies a buffer to be filled (nil
+means current).
+Optional argument NODISPLAY non-nil means buffer is not
+redisplayed as output is inserted."
+  (interactive "p")
+  (metamail-region (point-min) (point-max) viewmode buffer nodisplay))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun metamail-region (beg end &optional viewmode buffer nodisplay)
+  "Process current region through `metamail'.
+Optional argument VIEWMODE specifies the value of the
+EMACS_VIEW_MODE environment variable (defaulted to 1).
+Optional argument BUFFER specifies a buffer to be filled (nil
+means current).
+Optional argument NODISPLAY non-nil means buffer is not
+redisplayed as output is inserted."
+  (interactive "r\np")
+  (let ((curbuf (current-buffer))
+	(buffer-read-only nil)
+	(metafile (make-temp-file "metamail"))
+	(option-environment
+	 (list (format "EMACS_VIEW_MODE=%d"
+		       (if (numberp viewmode) viewmode 1)))))
+    (save-excursion
+      ;; Gee!  Metamail does not output to stdout if input comes from
+      ;; stdin.
+      (let ((selective-display nil))	;Disable ^M to nl translation.
+	(write-region beg end metafile nil 'nomessage))
+      (if buffer
+	  (set-buffer buffer))
+      (setq buffer-read-only nil)
+      ;; Clear destination buffer.
+      (if (eq curbuf (current-buffer))
+	  (delete-region beg end)
+	(delete-region (point-min) (point-max)))
+      ;; We have to pass the environment variable KEYHEADS to display
+      ;; all header fields.  Metamail should have an optional argument
+      ;; to pass such information directly.
+      (let ((process-environment
+	     (append process-environment
+		     metamail-environment option-environment))
+	    (coding-system-for-read 'undecided))
+	(apply (function call-process)
+	       metamail-program-name
+	       nil
+	       t			;Output to current buffer
+	       (not nodisplay)		;Force redisplay
+	       (append metamail-switches
+		       (list "-m" (or metamail-mailer-name "emacs"))
+		       (list metafile))))
+      ;; `metamail' may not delete the temporary file!
+      (condition-case error
+	  (delete-file metafile)
+	(error nil))
+      )))
+
+(provide 'metamail)
+
+;;; metamail.el ends here