[MlMt] MailMate needs to be updated warning

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

FWIW,

I have the same version of MailMate as you, I only have python3 installed, and yet Markdown works **fine**.

I don’t have the Premailer bundle at all. Did you install that yourself?

On 6 Apr 2022, at 18:16, Erik Mueller-Harder wrote:

> 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:
>
> ```
> Bundle command failed (Inline CSS/9846E526-1B45-42E8-8E75-F2B47AB5FF76)
>
> /Users/xyzzy/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Managed/Bundles/Premailer (Python).mmbundle/Support/bin/premailer:
> /Users/xyzzy/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Managed/Bundles/Premailer (Python).mmbundle/Support/premailerize:
> /usr/bin/python2.7: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
>
> /Users/xyzzy/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Managed/Bundles/Premailer (Python).mmbundle/Support/bin/premailer:
> /Users/xyzzy/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Managed/Bundles/Premailer (Python).mmbundle/Support/premailerize:
> /usr/bin/python2.7: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
> ```
>
> (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.)
>
> Is my only recourse to figure out how to download Python 2.7 and install it properly in `/usr/bin/`?
>
> (Again, the formatting works perfectly in MailMate’s preview pane; it doesn’t “fail” until I save the draft or send the message.)
>
> – Erik
>    MailMate 1.14 (5882)
>    macOS 12.3.1
>    MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021, Apple M1 Max)
>
> ------
> 2021-08-20 21:17 · [Bill Cole](mailto:mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com):
>
>> On 2021-08-20 at 10:38:14 UTC-0400 (Fri, 20 Aug 2021 14:38:14 +0000)
>> Randy H. Tjahjono <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
>> is rumored to have said:
>>
>>> I'm running the Monterey beta, and when launching MailMate I will occasionally get this warning
>>>
>>> [ "MM Warning-GIF.gif" ]
>>>
>>> Clicking on the *Learn More* link takes me to https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if this is an issue with Monterey, MailMate, Python, all three, or no issue at all.
>>
>> All 3.
>>
>> MM includes a couple of Python scripts (emate and html2text) that are written in Python and specify Python 2.7.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
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