Bug 191367

Summary: mail/getlive: is dead
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Lawrence Chen <beastie>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: John Marino <marino>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: ayu, marino
Priority: ---    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Lawrence Chen 2014-06-25 15:06:08 UTC 
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)
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-06-26 01:19:34 UTC 
Notify maintainer.
Comment 2 John Marino freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-07-20 16:11:04 UTC 
no word from the maintainer, so I'll kill the port.
Comment 3 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-07-20 21:30:10 UTC 
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