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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.

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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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