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   Richard Kettlewell to All   
   Re: Mailutils not shown in Raspbian sour   
   23 Jan 26 18:52:46   
   
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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  writes:   
   > 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    
      
   bullseye?s mailutils is ancient because bullseye is ancient, two full   
   releases out of date. If you need recent software then upgrade to trixie   
   (mailutils 3.19).   
      
   > By some reason, Synaptic install GUI does only show the sources for a few    
   > packages, and Mailutils is not among them.   
      
   Synaptic doesn?t provide source packages, you use ?apt-get source? for that.   
      
   > /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?   
      
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