BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Citadel? Courier? Cyrus? Dovecot? - I just want to backup my emails
De:       Markus Robert Kessler
Data:     Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:00:01 +1100
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:46:03 -0000 (UTC) Markus Robert Kessler wrote:

> On 16 Jan 2026 11:57:08 +1000 Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> 
>> Markus Robert Kessler  wrote:
>>> On 16 Jan 2026 08:19:25 +1000 Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>>> Markus Robert Kessler  wrote:
>>>>> So, except "tcp_wrappers", the package seems to be builable?
>>>> 
>>>> Yep, and tcp_wrappers looks to be optional, so you can probably
>>>> ignore that:
>>>> 
>>>> "The tcp-wrappers statements provides an alternative way to control
>>>>  accesses to the resources served by GNU Mailutils. This statement is
>>>>  enabled if Mailutils is compiled with TCP wrappers library libwrap."
>>>> https://www.mailutils.org/manual/html_node/tcp_002dwrappers-
>>> statement.html
>>> 
>>> OK, thanks. I see that lib64wrap-devel and libwrap-devel are there. Do
>>> you think it is sufficient to just install one of them as dependency?
>> 
>> Probably the lib64 one. The configure script shows the features enabled
>> like I posted before. So if it's found tcp_wrappers/libwrap then you'll
>> get the same as me:
>> 
>> "Use TCP wrappers .............. yes"
>> 
>> If not:
>> 
>> "Use TCP wrappers .............. no"
>> 
>> Either way I expect it'll do everything you need, since I think it's
>> just for the IMAP and POP servers that are also part of Mailutils.


Hi there,

after a 'make install' to some DESTDIR, I took the created 'usr' dir,
chown-ed everything to root:root and verified that the rights are correct.

Then I created a tar.gz archive out of this 'usr' dir.

From this I took alien to convert to rpm:
alien --target=`arch` -r gnu-mailutils-3.21.tar.gz


All worked, but when trying to install the rpm I get

[1040 root@mga9x64-lb1 /tmp]# rpm -i gnu-mailutils-3.21-2.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        devel(libgnutls(64bit)) is needed by gnu-mailutils-3.21-2.x86_64
        devel(libgsasl(64bit)) is needed by gnu-mailutils-3.21-2.x86_64
        devel(libltdl(64bit)) is needed by gnu-mailutils-3.21-2.x86_64
        libgsasl.so.7()(64bit) is needed by gnu-mailutils-3.21-2.x86_64
        libgsasl.so.7(LIBGSASL_1.1)(64bit) is needed by gnu-
mailutils-3.21-2.x86_64


This is strange because './configure' said

*******************************************************************
GNU Mailutils configured with the following settings:

Default mailbox scheme ........ mbox
Use PAM ....................... no
Use -ltdl ..................... yes
Use DBM ....................... no
Use GNU TLS ................... yes
Use GSASL ..................... yes
Use GSSAPI .................... yes
Use TCP wrappers .............. yes
Pthread support ............... yes
Readline support .............. yes
Libunistring support .......... yes
MySQL support ................. no
PostgreSQL support ............ no
LDAP support .................. no
Radius support ................ no
Support for virtual domains ... yes

IPv6 support .................. yes

Interfaces:

Guile ......................... no
C++ ........................... no
Python ........................ yes

Mailbox formats:

IMAP .......................... yes
POP ........................... yes
MH ............................ yes
maildir ....................... yes
dotmail ....................... yes

Mailers:

SMTP .......................... yes
Sendmail ...................... yes

Utilities to build:

Servers ....................... pop3d imap4d comsat mda lmtpd
Clients ....................... putmail frm mail sieve messages readmsg 
dotlock movemail mimeview decodemail mh

*******************************************************************

The 3 devel-s withing the 'rpm -i' error alert were installed as devel,
and the 2 gsasl-s, not sure, but maybe they are runtime requirements.

Any idea what's still missing here?

Thank you!

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