FreeBSD Port: courier-0.65.3_3

[Milan Obuch]

On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 16:41:46 -0400
"Christopher T. Stone" <chris at stoneyforest.net> wrote:

> > On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 01:16:03 -0400
> > "Saigol.ca Admin" <admin at saigol.ca> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> It seems that the Courier-MTA current version is 0.73.2.
> >> 
> >> The latest FreeBSD port is based on version 0.65.3, which seems to
> >> be more than 3 years old.  Are there any plans to update the port
> >> to the latest version of the software?
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> 
> >> Abid
> >> 
> > 
> > Yes, there are. Unfortunatelly, other tasks have currently more
> > urgent attention here, and there are some issues to be solved - new
> > dependencies are introduced and new port should be created first for
> > library needed to build new courier... also old port was recently
> > staged, which was necessary to keep it in tree at all. Also it looks
> > like recently a bit more work needs to be put into patch to get new
> > version committed into port tree, so it will take a bit of time
> > before new version of mail/courier could be published in port tree.
> > 
> > Before that, I will contact you as soon as I will have something to
> > test. Your setup is most probably different from mine and thus 
> > together
> > we can cover more usage scenarios, which is good thing everytime.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Milan
> 
> Milan & Abid,
> 
> I'm still working on checking functionality, but the liked diff
> builds (the new Unicode library was already in the ports tree). I
> only reviewed the old patches that were broken, anything that applied
> cleanly I left, those that were broken need a fair number of changes
> so I suspect the rest could use some review.
> 
> Link to diff:
> http://stoneyforest.net/~chris/courier-0.73.2-20141006.diff.gz
> 
> Apply to the mail/courier directory with:
> gunzip -c ../courier-0.73.2-20141006.diff.gz | patch
> 
> ~Chris Stone
>

Big thanks for the patch. I am going to verify it here in my test
setup. If it works for you, it will do hopefully for me as well. Abid,
could you test it too? If nothing bad comes from my testing, I will
prepare upgrade for port then.

Regards,
Milan