From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 13 04:02:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1830E16A410 for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 04:02:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from zoot.lafn.org (zoot.lafn.ORG [206.117.18.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA70C43D46 for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 04:02:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [10.0.1.5] (pool-71-109-244-179.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.109.244.179]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoot.lafn.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4D42qjM054758 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 12 May 2006 21:02:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) In-Reply-To: <20060513022617.GC960@picobyte.net> References: <20060513022617.GC960@picobyte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <3CDD7B72-34FC-45C2-828F-2F9F9C9FCD0F@lafn.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Doug Hardie Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 21:03:04 -0700 To: Shaun Amott X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88/1461/Fri May 12 14:19:37 2006 on zoot.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qpopper X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 04:02:55 -0000 On May 12, 2006, at 19:26, Shaun Amott wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 04:36:41PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: >> >> Is there someone actively maintaining the qpopper port? The mail >> address associated with the port doesn't give much hope. Qualcomm >> now lists qpopper as legacy software. Its not even directly >> accessible (at least as far as I can find). Is there any indication >> they plan to do any maintenance? They never incorporated the patches >> for maildir or for fixing the homedir issues. They did try the >> latter in 4.0.8, but only incoporated a configuration switch. That >> switch is never checked in the code. >> > > The port is assigned to the default ports@ address (pointed at this > list), so it is currently not maintained. > > There does however appear to be a newer version[1] available. > > [1] http://core.ring.gr.jp/archives/net/mail/qpopper/ > qpopper4.0.9.tar.gz Interesting as that is not identified on the qualcomm web pages. I saw a reference to 4.1.0 and went digging through the qualcomm ftp site. Found 4.1a2 in the beta directory. Its dated last summer. It does have the code for the homedir issues in it. 4.0.9 did not. What is the status of the port going to be with no one assigned to it?