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Assunto:  Re: Citadel? Courier? Cyrus? Dovecot? - I just want to backup my emails
De:       Markus Robert Kessler
Data:     Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:30:02 +1100
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On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 21:57:23 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 18:40:16 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:
> 
>> Apparently, GNU-Mailutils is not in the Fedora distribution. There are
>> RPMs for it in SuSE, but I am reluctant to mix "foreign" RPMs into my
>> Fedora; I have seen that greate small messes in dependencies. And I
>> really don't like to compile from sources.
> 
> Maybe you should switch to a more comprehensive distro?
> 
> 
> 
> And what?s with this reluctance to compile from source, anyway? It?s
> part of the bread and butter of running any Linux distro.

Yes, debian has it and openSuSE has it.
And I can confirm that compiling from scratch is not as easy as it looked 
like. I tried to create a package for Mageia, based on the original 
tarball, but there are plenty of dependencies not visible during 
configure/make/makeinstall. It compiled and built, but the result was not 
funtional. Creating a new rpm out of that failed as well.

Trying to "swipe" the source rpm from other distros is also far from 
trivial because most of them are based on tarball 3.15 ... 3.17, which is 
6 years or older. So, the current version 3.21 makes some patches obsolete 
and instead new dependencies are to be expected.

First I also thought of this text-based set of tools as being an easy job 
to build a package, but it turned out that this is not the case.

Best reagards,

Markus


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