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 attachment 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.
