First there was hotmail, where there was a program called GotMail (mail/gotmail). But, then Microsoft announced on 2007-05-07 that its new hotmail-live is gold and that everybody can migrate to it. GotMail stop working once a user switches to the new platform. On 2007-05-20, GetLive was announced. The last release of GotMail was 2007-04-10. Earlier this year (before my previous 3.0.3 patch was committed, and before I got to creating a patch for the 3.0.4 update), Microsoft started migrating users to its 'outlook' platform. GetLive has been unable to fetch mail from these accounts. After much investigation, initially by users such as myself, since the project owner's accounts weren't affected until much later. I have two hotmail.com accounts, where at first only one of the accounts was affected. On 2014-05-02, the project owner declared GetLive to be dead. He has said that he is working on a new project, likely to be python instead of perl based and not 100% compatible to GetLive (where GetLive was made to be a full replacement to GotMail)
Notify maintainer.
no word from the maintainer, so I'll kill the port.
A commit references this bug: Author: marino Date: Sun Jul 20 21:29:24 UTC 2014 New revision: 362377 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/362377 Log: Remove mail/getlive as project owner declares GetLive is dead Micrsoft is converting all hotmail accounts to "Outlook" platform and once converted, getlive can not longer function on the account. The project owner has declared GetLive dead as of 2 May 2014. Remove the port in a couple of weeks (1 Aug 2014) PR: 191367 Submitted by: Lawrence Chen Approved by: maintainer timeout (~4 weeks) Changes: head/mail/getlive/Makefile