ports/138743: [MAINTAINER] mail/hotwayd: Mark as deprecated

John Nielsen john at jnielsen.net
Fri Sep 11 19:40:04 UTC 2009


>Number:         138743
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [MAINTAINER] mail/hotwayd: Mark as deprecated
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          maintainer-update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 11 19:40:04 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John Nielsen
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD stealth.jnielsen.net 8.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3 #0 r196526: Tue Aug 25 10:22:09 EDT
>Description:
Hotmail/Live has enabled pop3 access and removed DAV access making hotwayd
both non-functional and unnecessary. Lack of revision bump is intentional.

Generated with FreeBSD Port Tools 0.99
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

--- hotwayd-0.8.4,1.patch begins here ---
diff -ruN --exclude=CVS /usr/ports/mail/hotwayd/pkg-descr /usr/ports/mail/hotwayd.new/pkg-descr
--- /usr/ports/mail/hotwayd/pkg-descr	2009-09-11 15:11:53.367727021 -0400
+++ /usr/ports/mail/hotwayd.new/pkg-descr	2009-09-11 15:27:32.899097000 -0400
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-Hotwayd uses HTTPMail (the same protocol that Outlook Express uses) to access
+NOTE: This port is deprecated as of 9/1/2009.
+The Hotmail and Windows Live servers no longer support DAV, so hotwayd can
+no longer work with those services. Fortunately the servers now support POP3
+directly (via POP3+SSL at pop3.live.com:995) so hotwayd is not needed.
+
+Hotwayd uses HTTPMail (the same protocol that Outlook Express used) to access
 servers such as Hotmail.  The software acts as a proxy mail server, allowing
 you to access e-mail on Hotmail and similar servers using standard POP3 mail
 clients.
--- hotwayd-0.8.4,1.patch ends here ---

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