Re: ports/mail/openwebmail - how to find last source before removal ?

On Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:26:33 +0200
"Julian H. Stacey" <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
Date:   2021-02-01 12:52:11 +0000

    Remove expired ports:

    […]    
    2021-01-31 mail/openwebmail: Does not use modern Perl syntax and
no development activity since 2006