2018-06-18 A Debianforum thread [0] brought to mind again what I was think- ing for some time already: We need a way to run the mmh tools without an mmh storage setup and independent of an mmh storage. Every once in a while, random people want to work with email in a scripting context. The mmh tools could provide the operations re- quested, but they don't work well separated from the whole mmh context. First we need some wrapper to run mmh tools in their own tem- porary environment, to not require a mail storage and not inter- fere with any existing mail storage. Let's call this script `mmh-no-env': #!/bin/sh # run mmh command contextless or without mmh installation temp="`mktemp -d`" trap 'rm -rf "$temp"' 0 1 2 15 export MMH="$temp" echo "Path: $temp" >"$temp/profile" "$@" Those random users could then do: 1) apt-get install mmh 2) mmh-no-env show -file /path/to/foo.msg This would be a crutch with minimal effort. The real solution would be to adjust the tools to be able to work within or without the mmh context, as wished. This need a clear and consistent con- cept. [0] https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=170037&p=1177005#p1177005 http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke