How to apply private patches to port?

[Sergei Kolobov]

On 2003-08-05 at 09:45 +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> It's only a private hack for imap-uw, which is very poorly configurable.
[...]
> That's why i had the idea of expanding the imap-uw port (and also 
> client-2002) with my own patch.

I think you should submit a PR with your patch and work with the port
maintainer to integrate it so others could benefit from your patch, too.
See Porter's Handbook for more information.

Sergei