Re: pkg/36569: mail/gotmail no longer usable, should be replaced with getlive

[Amitai Schlair <schmonz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/36569; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Amitai Schlair <schmonz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: Jason Boyer <jasonb%myjclibrary.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/36569: mail/gotmail no longer usable, should be replaced
        with getlive
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:42:38 -0400

 jasonb%myjclibrary.org@localhost wrote:
 
 > mail/gotmail is used to download messages from Hotmail.com, which has
 > changed substantially since gotmail was last updated. The GotMail
 > project has been superseded by the GetLive project at
 > http://sourceforge.net/projects/getlive/. I can't see any benefit to
 > keeping gotmail in pkgsrc, since it can no longer work and is no
 > longer maintained.
 
 Do you need GetLive specifically, or could you give mail/freepops a try?
 I've been happily using FreePOPs with Hotmail for several weeks.