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  • Mailutils not shown in Raspbian source ./. Was: Citadel? Courier? Cyrus

    From Markus Robert Kessler@3:633/10 to All on Sat Jan 24 11:30:01 2026
    Subject: Mailutils not shown in Raspbian source ./. Was: Citadel? Courier? Cyrus? Dovecot? - I just want to backup my emails

    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
    get this built, also.

    By some reason, Synaptic install GUI does only show the sources for a few packages, and Mailutils is not among them.

    /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?

    Thank you!


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