Subject: Re: Mailutils not shown in Raspbian source ./. Was: Citadel? Courier? Cyrus? Dovecot? - I just want to backup my emails
Markus Robert Kessler <
no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de> writes:
On 20 Jan 2026 07:41:06 +1000 Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
[..]
If you want the same build to run on Debian and "Redhat / Mageia", then
static linking can achieve that more reliably. Note that it will prevent
security updates to gnutls being applied when running Mailutils with
encrypted connections, until you rebuild the static binary. You should
be able to use the Debian x86_64 Mailutils packages at least, so you
probably don't need to try running the Mageia build on there. Just
compile and install Mailutils normally on "Redhat / Mageia for intel"
and "debian for ARM" as two separate processes.
Yes, and now I try to install the GNU Mailutils source package on a Pi3B with Bullseye OS. Meaning, try to rebuild the (ancient) package as is, and as next steps, to replace the source tgz, do some adaptations and try to
bullseye?s mailutils is ancient because bullseye is ancient, two full
releases out of date. If you need recent software then upgrade to trixie (mailutils 3.19).
By some reason, Synaptic install GUI does only show the sources for a few packages, and Mailutils is not among them.
Synaptic doesn?t provide source packages, you use ?apt-get source? for that.
/etc/apt/sources.list contains
deb http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ bullseye main contrib non-
free rpi
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
deb-src http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ bullseye main contrib non-free rpi
Is there one more repo to activate, so that it shows up for downloading?
--
https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/
--- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)