Opened 4 years ago
Closed 4 years ago
#12946 closed enhancement (fixed)
Fix libesmtp URL
| Reported by: | Bruce Dubbs | Owned by: | Bruce Dubbs |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 9.1 |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
The upstream site http://brianstafford.info/libesmtp seems to be gone.
We need to find an alternate and get a better site for currency, although the package has not changed since 2015. We can host on anduin and I did find https://src.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/libesmtp/ but I don't know if we want to use that. The full URL includes an md5sum which is ugly.
libesmtp is only used by balsa as a required dependency.
On the other hand we could drop both libesmtp and balsa...
Change History (4)
follow-up: 2 comment:1 by , 4 years ago
comment:2 by , 4 years ago
Replying to pierre.labastie:
Looking at configure in 2.5.9 version of balsa: there is no occurence of "smtp" in it. So I think the requirement for libesmtp has been removed (needs testing, no time today for that).
I agree that esmtp does not seem to be used in balsa any more, but there are several references to esmtp in the Changelog, NEWS, INSTALL, src/save-restore.c (comment only), and balsa.spec{,.in}.
These references do not seem to apply any more. Looking at the dependencies in the book, there is a comment about an MTA/sendmail. That should probably be a required runtime dependency.
comment:3 by , 4 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
Looking at configure in 2.5.9 version of balsa: there is no occurence of "smtp" in it. So I think the requirement for libesmtp has been removed (needs testing, no time today for that).