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Subject: Re: Mailutils not shown in Raspbian source ./. Was: Citadel? Courier?
Cyrus? Dovecot? - I just want to backup my emails

Markus Robert Kessler  wrote:
> On 20 Jan 2026 07:41:06 +1000 Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
>> If you want the same build to run on Debian and "Redhat / Mageia", then
>> static linking can achieve that more reliably. Note that it will prevent
>> security updates to gnutls being applied when running Mailutils with
>> encrypted connections, until you rebuild the static binary. You should
>> be able to use the Debian x86_64 Mailutils packages at least, so you
>> probably don't need to try running the Mageia build on there. Just
>> compile and install Mailutils normally on "Redhat / Mageia for intel"
>> and "debian for ARM" as two separate processes.
> 
> Yes, and now I try to install the GNU Mailutils source package on a Pi3B 
> with Bullseye OS. Meaning, try to rebuild the (ancient) package as is, and 
> as next steps, to replace the source tgz, do some adaptations and try to 
> get this built, also.

I'd just build from the latest source code manually like you did on
Mageia, but whatever floats your boat...

> By some reason, Synaptic install GUI does only show the sources for a few 
> packages, and Mailutils is not among them.
> 
> /etc/apt/sources.list contains
> 
> deb http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ bullseye main contrib non-
> free rpi      
> # Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
> deb-src http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ bullseye main contrib 
> non-free rpi
> 
> Is there one more repo to activate, so that it shows up for downloading?

As a guess: maybe the Raspbian package repo doesn't have sources
for packages they copied from Debian instead of rebuilding
themselves? You could look at the Debian package info/downloads
on the web like LDO suggested. I'm not sure how building from
sources automatically via Apt works, so I'm not sure how you'd use
the Debian package repo with that.

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