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    From Julian H. Stacey@jhs@berklix.com to muc.lists.freebsd.ports on Wed Sep 17 17:26:33 2025
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    Hi ports@ people,
    How does one find the last release that had ports/mail/openwebmail ?
    I failed to find it with Log in
    https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/log/mail/Makefile
    Maybe because it was gone before 12.4-RELEASE & maybe old SVN logs were lost converting to Git ?
    I could do a tedious series of samples, examining many ports trees,
    but I presume git has a method ? (I have a local git tree, but not skilled).
    I want to get the last working copy of openwebmail, to port it to 14.3-RELEASE-p2 (as old binaries blow with a perl problem since upgrade).
    I'd best also instal another server to try (sqwebmail or other ?)
    as I've received complaints about Openwebmail within Firefox on Android.
    Any suggestions which Android app best with my dovecot's POP3 & IMAP https://search.f-droid.org/?q=mail&lang=en
    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=android+mail+apps&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1
    Comments welcome, Thanks
    Cheers,
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  • From Eugene Grosbein@eugen@grosbein.net to muc.lists.freebsd.ports on Wed Sep 17 22:38:01 2025
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    17.09.2025 22:26, Julian H. Stacey wrote:

    Hi ports@ people,
    How does one find the last release that had ports/mail/openwebmail ?
    I failed to find it with Log in
    https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/log/mail/Makefile
    Maybe because it was gone before 12.4-RELEASE
    & maybe old SVN logs were lost converting to Git ?

    I could do a tedious series of samples, examining many ports trees,
    but I presume git has a method ? (I have a local git tree, but not skilled).

    In a root of your local hit three for ports do:

    git log -- mail/openwebmail

    This gives you a hash of latest (removal) commit: 3c9b734022681d3361f88dd9c398a2eaa0033a0e
    The do:

    git show 3c9b734022681d3361f88dd9c398a2eaa0033a0e -- mail/openwebmail/Makefile

    This gives you exact contents of the port's Makefile that was removed starting with:

    -# Created by: Yen-Ming Lee <leeym@leeym.com>
    -# $FreeBSD$
    -
    -PORTNAME= openwebmail
    -PORTVERSION= 2.53
    -PORTREVISION= 5
    -CATEGORIES= mail
    -MASTER_SITES= http://openwebmail.acatysmoof.com/download/release/ \
    - http://openwebmail.org/openwebmail/download/release/
    ...

    Eugene



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  • From Piotr Smyrak@ps.ports@smyrak.com to muc.lists.freebsd.ports on Wed Sep 17 17:41:48 2025
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    On Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:26:33 +0200
    "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> wrote:
    How does one find the last release that had ports/mail/openwebmail ?
    I failed to find it with Log in
    https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/log/mail/Makefile
    Maybe because it was gone before 12.4-RELEASE
    & maybe old SVN logs were lost converting to Git ?

    I could do a tedious series of samples, examining many ports trees,
    but I presume git has a method ? (I have a local git tree, but not
    skilled).


    I want to get the last working copy of openwebmail, to port it to 14.3-RELEASE-p2 (as old binaries blow with a perl problem since
    upgrade).

    I'd best also instal another server to try (sqwebmail or other ?)
    as I've received complaints about Openwebmail within Firefox on
    Android.

    Any suggestions which Android app best with my dovecot's POP3 & IMAP
    https://search.f-droid.org/?q=mail&lang=en
    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=android+mail+apps&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1

    Comments welcome, Thanks
    Beware, this has already looked back then as an abandonware, see this
    commit:
    commit 3c9b734022681d3361f88dd9c398a2eaa0033a0e
    Author: Rene Ladan <rene@FreeBSD.org>
    Date: 2021-02-01 12:52:11 +0000
    Remove expired ports:
    [rCa]
    2021-01-31 mail/openwebmail: Does not use modern Perl syntax and
    no development activity since 2006
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  • From =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=@des@FreeBSD.org to muc.lists.freebsd.ports on Wed Sep 17 18:59:17 2025
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    Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> writes:
    In a root of your local hit three for ports do:

    git log -- mail/openwebmail

    This gives you a hash of latest (removal) commit: 3c9b73402268
    The do:

    git show 3c9b73402268 -- mail/openwebmail/Makefile
    better:
    git show 3c9b73402268\^:mail/openwebmail/Makefile
    DES
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