Bugzilla Bug 18529

while working with uw-imap, I found out that the dmail, tmail and mailutil
tools
are not installed by default. For uw-imap-2001{a,b} these tools need to be
installed by the additional package imap-utils.tar.Z from
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/imap-utils.tar.Z

But since this distribution is marked as old by the developers, I just worked
on
the uw-imap-2002b.ebuild script. The 2002b edition ships with the utils package
by default, but they are not installed by the ebuild script. I attached an
updated version.

Created an attachment (id=10061) [details]
updated ebuild script

could you please provide a diff of your changes to the ebuild and attach it, be
sure to set the correct mime-type.

And could you explain why we would want to add these utilities, since we didn't
have them before either.

If you want to use the preferred MailBox-format for uw-imap (mbx), you want the
updates. This is (especially whith large environments and many mails per user)
a lot faster than the mbox format, since it caches the mails for faster access.
Plus, it allows more IMAP-features (such as mail-highlighting in different
colors with mozilla) than you would normally get.

Since I was using it for an enterprise, these features seemed worth writing a
patch. Furthermore, I read the excellent article from Jauder Ho who implemented
an IMAP solution for transmeta, read it here: 

http://www.carumba.com/imap/

After I was done with it, my boss was unhappy with the mbx format since you can
store messages only in the leaves, not in the branches of your subfolders. So I
quit using UW-IMAP and settled for cyrus-imapd, which works fine for them and
supports both mozilla-colours and directory-tree-like mail sorting, although
there were other problems (see bug 18706).

fixed in 2002d

not sure this got fixed... 2002d was only a security bump

uw-imap appears to also need xinetd installed, but that dependency is missing. 

After finding no docs for them
I looked at the source, here is a quick summary:

mailutil - mbox and mbx utility, provides copy/move/append/delete/create commands from the commandline
mlock - provides dot locking for mailboxes
mtest - imap mail test application

tmail - delivers mail in some fashion
dmail - delivers mail in some fashion

based on this, i've put tmail and dmail in sbin, and the rest in bin.

Done in CVS now.