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Port details

mail/mew 6.11

Messaging in the Emacs World for emacs

Port info

Maintainer
t.masub@gmail.com
Packages
latest: 6.11
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 6.11 · 19f5222204
Quarterly
2026Q4: 6.11
WWW
https://www.Mew.org/
Links
cgit · VuXML · Report wrong data

Install

Package
# pkg install mew
installs 6.11 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 6.11
Port
# cd /usr/ports/mail/mew && make install clean
# make -C /usr/ports/mail/mew config  # change options first
Size
615 KiB download · 2.7 MiB installed
Depends on
print/indexinfo 0.3.1_1, security/stunnel 5.82,1
License
BSD3CLAUSE
Options
2 of 3 on in the package: DOCS STUNNEL
Show the 1 options that are off
DATABASE
pkg-message
Shown after installing
You may want to add following lines to your ~/.emacs and/or ~/.mew.el.

    (autoload 'mew "mew" nil t)
    (autoload 'mew-send "mew" nil t)
    (setq mew-mail-domain "domain of e-mail address")
    (setq mew-pop-server "your POP server")    ;; if not localhost
    (setq mew-smtp-server "your SMTP server")  ;; if not localhost
    ;; using fetch for PGP instead of wget
    (setq mew-prog-pgpkey      "fetch")
    (setq mew-prog-pgpkey-arg  '("-q" "-o" "-"))

Please consult sample files /usr/local/share/doc/mew/dot.{emacs,mew}.
See also /usr/local/share/doc/mew/00diff for the changes from previous versions.

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 166.116.11–
FreeBSD 156.116.11–
FreeBSD 146.116.116.11

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 156.116.11–
FreeBSD 146.116.116.11

version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.

Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)

No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 6.11.

Fixed (0)

No VuXML entries for this package.

Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

None.

Commits (115)

Shigeyuki Fukushima (shige)
Synchronize with upgrading emacs-20.5(a).
189ccb0c77
Gary Jennejohn (gj)
Modify EMACS_VER for xemacs21 to reflect my recent update of xemacs21 to version 21.1.7.

As Satoshi wrote:

You are allowed to change other peoples' ports if they are affected by
your change, Gary. :) (in re a comment in the commit message).
97d7f67031
Tim Vanderhoek (hoek)
Enforce random pkg/COMMENT rules, including the one that states Emacs should be spelled corrcetly, although I rather liked "Emasc".
9dbc794cb4
Satoshi Taoka (taoka)
Updated to 19.4   Added mew-xemacs21 (by Repository copy)   Deleted mew-common

PR:		13391
Submitted by:	maintainer
b731a87d83
David E. O'Brien (obrien)
Change Id->FreeBSD.
f3a9c6c81e
Steve Price (steve)
Update to mew version 1.93.

PR:		8860
Submitted by:	maintainer
c480e96df4
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Use MASTERDIR where appropriate.  Also, add FILE_DEPENDS to denote that the port otherwise uses files from another port.  (Note: support for FILE_DEPENDS is not in bsd.port.mk yet, so it's a no-op for now.)
555a3ebe6c
Jun Kuriyama (kuriyama)
Upgrade to v1.93

Submitted by:	KIRIYAMA Kazuhiko <kiri@pis.toba-cmt.ac.jp>
PR:		ports/8233 (part of)
617d85793c
Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)
A major restructuring of mew ports to add xemacs versions ({japanese,mail}/mew-xemacs). Along the way, mew for mule with Japanese environment was renamed from japanese/mew to japanese/mew-mule (repository-copy done.) Submitted by:	maintainer PR:		6533, 6588
41fb6712d8
Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)
Upgrade, 1.70 -> 1.92.4.

Also, please note that the mechanism to build and install Mew has been
changed.  This port (mail/mew) now installs things needed by those who
use Mew with Emacs.
PR:		5166
Submitted by:	Kazuhiko Kiriyama <kiri@kiri.toba-cmt.ac.jp>
5ee09ce6ff
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Update dir file with install-info.  Also, change organization so that files can be shared between this port and japanese/mew.

Note this is a "blind" commit; it is too much trouble to test an update
with this many added and deleted files.  I'll test it later.

PR:		3789
Submitted by:	kiri
b39a8dd404
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Add backup site in Japan.  This port is RESTRICTED so ftp.freebsd.org can't carry the distfile, and the original has disappeared from the master site.

Submitted by:	kiri@kiri.toba-cmt.ac.jp
2734a3aa00
Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)
Modified the comment for RESTRICTED to reflect the reality.
1e5df59ffd
Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)
Rename files/.{emacs,mh_profile} to dot.{emacs,mh_profile}.   Install sample files into share/examples/mew instead of to share/doc/mew.   Use PKG_PREFIX in the installation/deinstallation scripts.   Define RESTRICTED as this package has hook to pgp.   Some Makefile cleanup.   Editing of site-start.el during the installation procedure  now adds   autoload entries for this program.   Submitted by:
b2b694d1e9
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Message interface to Emacs Window, emacs version.

Submitted by:   Kiriyama Kazuhiko <kiri@kiri.toba-cmt.ac.jp>
0225b68252