[Alpine-info] ingesting .msg files

[D. Hugh Redelmeier via Alpine-info]

> From: Joshua Miller <unrtst at gmail.com>


Thanks for you useful message!


> You noted that Debian and Ubuntu have "msgconv"; Maybe that was a typo, or

> you got it from the msgconvert site URL? "msgconv" handles character set

> conversions (Ex. mapping Greek characters to equivalents in other character

> sets). I think you are referring to the same utility I used, and it's the

> same one you linked to at https://www.matijs.net/software/msgconv/


Right you are!


> You noted it didn't trivially build on Fedora - what problems did you have?


I don't remember.  I tend to get .msg files once a year and this was a 
year ago.  My one Ubuntu installation is on a failing notebook so I was 
revisiting.

I found that the debian / ubuntu package can be installed via apt on 
a ChomeOS Linux subsystem "Crostini".

I strongly prefer software from my distro's repos.  That makes updates and 
upgrades a lot smoother.  I mostly avoid using CPAN and PyPI directly; 
this would be a mistake if I programmed in perl or python (Rust has the 
same problem).