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<p dir="auto">FWIW,</p>
<p dir="auto">I have the same version of MailMate as you, I only have python3 installed, and yet Markdown works <strong>fine</strong>.</p>
<p dir="auto">I don’t have the Premailer bundle at all. Did you install that yourself?</p>
<p dir="auto">On 6 Apr 2022, at 18:16, Erik Mueller-Harder wrote:</p>
</div><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; color: #777777;"><p dir="auto">And this, finally, seems to be the answer to the error that I get whenever I attempt to send a Markdown-formatted email in MailMate. Thanks to Benny’s recently improved error reporting, I see the following whenever I attempt to send such a message:</p>
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Bundle command failed (Inline CSS/9846E526-1B45-42E8-8E75-F2B47AB5FF76)</p>
<p dir="auto">/Users/xyzzy/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Managed/Bundles/Premailer (Python).mmbundle/Support/bin/premailer:
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/Users/xyzzy/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Managed/Bundles/Premailer (Python).mmbundle/Support/premailerize:
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/usr/bin/python2.7: bad interpreter: No such file or directory</p>
<p dir="auto">/Users/xyzzy/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Managed/Bundles/Premailer (Python).mmbundle/Support/bin/premailer:
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/Users/xyzzy/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Managed/Bundles/Premailer (Python).mmbundle/Support/premailerize:
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/usr/bin/python2.7: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
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```</p>
<p dir="auto">(I’ve just formatted that with a code fence, but I’ll bet you all will see the raw Markdown rather than the lightly formatted HTML that I want to send.)</p>
<p dir="auto">Is my only recourse to figure out how to download Python 2.7 and install it properly in `/usr/bin/`?</p>
<p dir="auto">(Again, the formatting works perfectly in MailMate’s preview pane; it doesn’t “fail” until I save the draft or send the message.)</p>
<p dir="auto">– Erik
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MailMate 1.14 (5882)
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macOS 12.3.1
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MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021, Apple M1 Max)</p>
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2021-08-20 21:17 · [Bill Cole](<a href="mailto:mmlist-20120120@billmail.scconsult.com" style="color: #777777;">mailto:mmlist-20120120@billmail.scconsult.com</a>):</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; border-left-color: #999999; color: #999999;"><p dir="auto">On 2021-08-20 at 10:38:14 UTC-0400 (Fri, 20 Aug 2021 14:38:14 +0000)
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Randy H. Tjahjono <mailmate@lists.freron.com>
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is rumored to have said:</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; border-left-color: #BBBBBB; color: #BBBBBB;"><p dir="auto">I'm running the Monterey beta, and when launching MailMate I will occasionally get this warning</p>
<p dir="auto">[ "MM Warning-GIF.gif" ]</p>
<p dir="auto">Clicking on the *Learn More* link takes me to <a href="https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/" style="color: #BBBBBB;">https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/</a></p>
<p dir="auto">I'm not sure if this is an issue with Monterey, MailMate, Python, all three, or no issue at all.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">All 3.</p>
<p dir="auto">MM includes a couple of Python scripts (emate and html2text) that are written in Python and specify Python 2.7.</p>
<p dir="auto">Python 2 is an obsolete version of the Python language. The effort to get everyone using Python to convert to Python 3 was a 14-year project that did not go well. There have been no improvements, security patches, or bug tracking for Python 2.7 since 2019. There are still a lot of Python 2 scripts embedded in other programs like MM and in production as freestanding software like the GNU Mailman v2 instance running this mailing list. In the cases where 2->3 conversion is not trivial, it has often led developers to completely rewrite programs (e.g Mailman v3) from scratch.</p>
<p dir="auto">Operating systems have finally started to remove Python 2.x packages from their official distributions and Apple is one of the last to do so. They are apparently including a mechanism for warning users in the Monterey beta, which is a good thing.</p>
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