diff --git a/libesmtp/.footprint b/libesmtp/.footprint
deleted file mode 100644
index 45b7ab09c..000000000
--- a/libesmtp/.footprint
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/libesmtp-config
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/include/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/include/libesmtp/
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/include/libesmtp/auth-client.h
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/include/libesmtp/auth-plugin.h
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/include/libesmtp/libesmtp.h
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/esmtp-plugins/
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/esmtp-plugins/sasl-cram-md5.a
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/esmtp-plugins/sasl-cram-md5.la
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/esmtp-plugins/sasl-cram-md5.so
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/esmtp-plugins/sasl-login.a
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/esmtp-plugins/sasl-login.la
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/esmtp-plugins/sasl-login.so
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/esmtp-plugins/sasl-plain.a
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/esmtp-plugins/sasl-plain.la
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/esmtp-plugins/sasl-plain.so
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/libesmtp.a
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/libesmtp.la
-lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libesmtp.so -> libesmtp.so.6.1.6
-lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libesmtp.so.6 -> libesmtp.so.6.1.6
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/libesmtp.so.6.1.6
diff --git a/libesmtp/.signature b/libesmtp/.signature
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c4dfe8b6..000000000
--- a/libesmtp/.signature
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-untrusted comment: verify with /etc/ports/opt.pub
-RWSE3ohX2g5d/YsEq4r2AzxRQGREoGHhJWIBSF4LJkCzCbGx6RvtFFwjUXg2ysEd1OaY2SrGTtZwsgl3xUpj+X7ympcy0R8uDgQ=
-SHA256 (Pkgfile) = 776b88d88ed7817c40857f50d9b6dcbab8850269696ddd43d7a36c9ac3db9221
-SHA256 (.footprint) = 0ab43d99a738ede6695a94f8caa028e955111e634353e7d7741cc08aad8d3b68
-SHA256 (libesmtp-1.0.6.tar.bz2) = d0a61a5c52d99fa7ce7d00ed0a07e341dbda67101dbed1ab0cdae3f37db4eb0b
-SHA256 (libesmtp-1.0.6-openssl-1.1-api-compatibility.patch) = d10161f8b01c7865dcb948f8e65e61b8596752856953a605632d2c09dd41494c
diff --git a/libesmtp/Pkgfile b/libesmtp/Pkgfile
deleted file mode 100644
index d6d853648..000000000
--- a/libesmtp/Pkgfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-# Description: A library for posting electronic mail
-# URL: http://brianstafford.info/libesmtp
-# Maintainer:  Thomas Penteker, tek at serverop dot de
-# Depends on: openssl
-
-name=libesmtp
-version=1.0.6
-release=2
-source=(https://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/$name/$name-$version.tar.bz2/bf3915e627fd8f35524a8fdfeed979c8/$name-$version.tar.bz2
-	libesmtp-1.0.6-openssl-1.1-api-compatibility.patch)
-
-build() {
-	cd $name-$version
-
-	patch -p1 -i $SRC/libesmtp-1.0.6-openssl-1.1-api-compatibility.patch
-	autoreconf -i
-
-	./configure \
-		--prefix=/usr \
-		--with-openssl=/usr \
-		--includedir=/usr/include/libesmtp
-
-	make
-	make DESTDIR=$PKG install
-}
diff --git a/libesmtp/libesmtp-1.0.6-openssl-1.1-api-compatibility.patch b/libesmtp/libesmtp-1.0.6-openssl-1.1-api-compatibility.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index bc3e3f356..000000000
--- a/libesmtp/libesmtp-1.0.6-openssl-1.1-api-compatibility.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index 556f220..2c0693d 100644
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ if test x$with_openssl != xno ; then
- 	)
- fi
- if test x$with_openssl != xno ; then
--	AC_CHECK_LIB(ssl, SSL_library_init, [
-+	AC_CHECK_LIB(ssl, SSL_new, [
- 				with_openssl=yes
- 				LIBS="-lssl -lcrypto $LIBS"
- 		     ], [
-diff --git a/smtp-tls.c b/smtp-tls.c
-index 9a66806..cfc6589 100644
---- a/smtp-tls.c
-+++ b/smtp-tls.c
-@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ static void *ctx_password_cb_arg;
- #ifdef USE_PTHREADS
- #include <pthread.h>
- static pthread_mutex_t starttls_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
-+#if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER < 0x10100000
- static pthread_mutex_t *openssl_mutex;
- 
- static void
-@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ openssl_mutexcb (int mode, int n,
-     pthread_mutex_unlock (&openssl_mutex[n]);
- }
- #endif
-+#endif
- 
- static int
- starttls_init (void)
-@@ -77,6 +79,10 @@ starttls_init (void)
-   if (tls_init)
-     return 1;
- 
-+#if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER < 0x10100000
-+  /* starting from OpenSSL 1.1.0, OpenSSL uses a new threading API and does its own locking */
-+  /* also initialization has been reworked and is done automatically */
-+  /* so there's not much to do here any more */
- #ifdef USE_PTHREADS
-   /* Set up mutexes for the OpenSSL library */
-   if (openssl_mutex == NULL)
-@@ -94,9 +100,10 @@ starttls_init (void)
-       CRYPTO_set_locking_callback (openssl_mutexcb);
-     }
- #endif
--  tls_init = 1;
-   SSL_load_error_strings ();
-   SSL_library_init ();
-+#endif
-+  tls_init = 1;
-   return 1;
- }
- 
-@@ -201,7 +208,15 @@ starttls_create_ctx (smtp_session_t session)
-      3207.  Servers typically support SSL as well as TLS because some
-      versions of Netscape do not support TLS.  I am assuming that all
-      currently deployed servers correctly support TLS.  */
-+#if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER < 0x10100000
-   ctx = SSL_CTX_new (TLSv1_client_method ());
-+#else
-+  ctx = SSL_CTX_new (TLS_client_method ());
-+  if (!SSL_CTX_set_min_proto_version(ctx, TLS1_VERSION)) {
-+        /* FIXME: set an error code AND free the allocated ctx */
-+        return NULL;
-+  }
-+#endif
- 
-   /* Load our keys and certificates.  To avoid messing with configuration
-      variables etc, use fixed paths for the certificate store.  These are