From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   Markus Robert Kessler  wrote:   
   > On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 21:57:23 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>    
   >>   
   >> 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.   
      
   Well I built GNU Mailutils 3.21 from source with all the   
   functionality you require and noted the following dependencies:   
      
   readline-dev, libunistring-dev, gnutls38-dev, tcp_wrappers-dev,   
   libltdl, libtool-dev, libgsasl-dev   
      
   At least libgsasl-dev probably isn't needed for your use since I   
   only added that to enable SMTP authentication using putmail. IMAP   
   authentication using movemail was working before that. Some others   
   might be surplus to requirements too.   
      
   It _does_ tell you better than some what dependencies it's using,   
   although I agree the docs aren't so clear about the old "what does   
   this dependency do for _me_?" problem, which is hardly unique to   
   this project.   
      
   *******************************************************************   
   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 .................... no   
   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 ........................ no   
      
   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   
      
   *******************************************************************   
      
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