Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:35:10 -0400 (EDT) From: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/138743: [MAINTAINER] mail/hotwayd: Mark as deprecated Message-ID: <200909111935.n8BJZAZR003453@stealth.jnielsen.net> Resent-Message-ID: <200909111940.n8BJe4lL088226@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 138743 >Category: ports >Synopsis: [MAINTAINER] mail/hotwayd: Mark as deprecated >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: maintainer-update >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 11 19:40:04 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: John Nielsen >Release: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3 i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD stealth.jnielsen.net 8.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3 #0 r196526: Tue Aug 25 10:22:09 EDT >Description: Hotmail/Live has enabled pop3 access and removed DAV access making hotwayd both non-functional and unnecessary. Lack of revision bump is intentional. Generated with FreeBSD Port Tools 0.99 >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: --- hotwayd-0.8.4,1.patch begins here --- diff -ruN --exclude=CVS /usr/ports/mail/hotwayd/pkg-descr /usr/ports/mail/hotwayd.new/pkg-descr --- /usr/ports/mail/hotwayd/pkg-descr 2009-09-11 15:11:53.367727021 -0400 +++ /usr/ports/mail/hotwayd.new/pkg-descr 2009-09-11 15:27:32.899097000 -0400 @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ -Hotwayd uses HTTPMail (the same protocol that Outlook Express uses) to access +NOTE: This port is deprecated as of 9/1/2009. +The Hotmail and Windows Live servers no longer support DAV, so hotwayd can +no longer work with those services. Fortunately the servers now support POP3 +directly (via POP3+SSL at pop3.live.com:995) so hotwayd is not needed. + +Hotwayd uses HTTPMail (the same protocol that Outlook Express used) to access servers such as Hotmail. The software acts as a proxy mail server, allowing you to access e-mail on Hotmail and similar servers using standard POP3 mail clients. --- hotwayd-0.8.4,1.patch ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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