diff --git a/mail-client/alot/Manifest b/mail-client/alot/Manifest
index 791931f3a5d22..45b2450ac3958 100644
--- a/mail-client/alot/Manifest
+++ b/mail-client/alot/Manifest
@@ -1,5 +1 @@
-DIST alot-0.3.7.tar.gz 1475759 BLAKE2B d14ba03f86dfb04f16644f27286e6a7314d0559b345d0430226d45430e99f5ed72eb35cad9c576bf88cdccbc83c5265eb09a30efb2254b79d6b85e5a30ef5a49 SHA512 a0b7e5a7b77f8cdee38c273eec2822bee2e7c409ab4b8803817a49d679dd53ff29750ba7f8a9214368cc7b0b17bd76a40b0263b4701b2ef695c7669316b1b116
-DIST alot-0.5.1.tar.gz 1490645 BLAKE2B fd63ff7191fba3ee7fa3cf362cad9d684513fd6180263a2b888ee2cc00d55ca5442e273ed1b4e4012106db67404715eff4302ea25b89343ca0f467953402de33 SHA512 0194f163724fc5485aa89fe5354d16bdfdd3f539f6f3cfdb715e61835f3e632b8ac0daed44983a95c20eb0244c44c1d7801d262a5fd16ad63c3efd046e05b787
-DIST alot-0.6.tar.gz 1527183 BLAKE2B 60e06d806bf5bfacdec485c3bcde6a5473bce2093abcc20d5e105b40f6d78bf93773c3b54311fdbbb632abe724a410d8941cfb0018842ee445ccea64c73a5033 SHA512 300b99d4919dd59d569de49195e33a3224bc28fbddf0b2aa6e3b419e030a22ec2d9acf389d67eb062cad9f2cd85f019cd6dff23e724491718e246397e70ed059
-DIST alot-0.7.tar.gz 1539283 BLAKE2B 33e77f815c4f83fc08f1834a89a984309c1d4b89454d9bb0df625d00725c64769ce4989fa8df8f38d40d1c35fb78202880fedc0a0a5e7134f1938a03c79e7721 SHA512 542827c94e6cfc57699613b352527582dc2e365d957ba6b7e835584e8b83d0704452acd5ab8e4e1e408c283ec3400a8bbe465b2a8fad9f95fb330328c4fe81f8
 DIST alot-0.8.1.tar.gz 220342 BLAKE2B 019f41f1f1fe73aa17a309a73b12883cbbae6a232d912d0e328b3862fc4e8e49ea6a3d0b6e2921ecb4d6ee8a58a9f6826facd7ff4cd6fafc17f6f5fe0195dd2c SHA512 bca4a01636594f0e71c6ea260d74cf26e74dfd7aca1ea7801714b4aaf9602ae7737769e77e3af0363ed2701df1494e0f87ce85b58c47a6380ad1a9098f8501d4
diff --git a/mail-client/alot/alot-0.3.7-r1.ebuild b/mail-client/alot/alot-0.3.7-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index e5de9377b0a5d..0000000000000
--- a/mail-client/alot/alot-0.3.7-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=5
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 vcs-snapshot
-
-DESCRIPTION="Experimental terminal UI for net-mail/notmuch written in Python"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/pazz/alot"
-SRC_URI="${HOMEPAGE}/tarball/${PV} -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE="doc"
-
-DEPEND="
-	doc? ( dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
-	"
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-python/configobj-4.6.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/pygpgme[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/python-magic[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/twisted-core-10.2.0
-	>=dev-python/urwid-1.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/urwidtrees-1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	net-mail/mailbase
-	>=net-mail/notmuch-0.13[crypt,python]
-	"
-
-ALOT_UPDATE=""
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	if has_version "<${CATEGORY}/${PN}-0.3.2"; then
-		ALOT_UPDATE="yes"
-	fi
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	find "${S}" -name '*.py' -print0 | xargs -0 -- sed \
-		-e '1i# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-' -i || die
-
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-
-	local md
-	for md in *.md; do
-		mv "${md}" "${md%.md}"
-	done
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	distutils-r1_src_compile
-
-	if use doc; then
-		pushd docs || die
-		emake html
-		popd || die
-	fi
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	distutils-r1_src_install
-
-	dodir /usr/share/alot
-	insinto /usr/share/alot
-	doins -r extra
-
-	if use doc; then
-		dohtml -r docs/build/html/*
-	fi
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	if [[ ${ALOT_UPDATE} = yes ]]; then
-		ewarn "The syntax of theme-files and custom tags-sections of the config"
-		ewarn "has been changed.  You have to revise your config.  There are"
-		ewarn "converter scripts in /usr/share/alot/extra to help you out with"
-		ewarn "this:"
-		ewarn ""
-		ewarn "  * tagsections_convert.py for your ~/.config/alot/config"
-		ewarn "  * theme_convert.py to update your custom theme files"
-	fi
-}
diff --git a/mail-client/alot/alot-0.5.1.ebuild b/mail-client/alot/alot-0.5.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index fde61c5f82635..0000000000000
--- a/mail-client/alot/alot-0.5.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=5
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 vcs-snapshot
-
-DESCRIPTION="Experimental terminal UI for net-mail/notmuch written in Python"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/pazz/alot"
-SRC_URI="${HOMEPAGE}/tarball/${PV} -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE="doc test"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-DEPEND="
-	doc? ( dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
-	test? ( dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
-	"
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-python/configobj-4.7.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/pygpgme-0.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/python-magic[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/twisted-core-10.2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/urwid-1.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/urwidtrees-1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	net-mail/mailbase
-	>=net-mail/notmuch-0.13[crypt,python]
-	"
-PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/0.5.1-0001-Don-t-install-test-suite.patch )
-
-ALOT_UPDATE=""
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	if has_version "<${CATEGORY}/${PN}-0.3.2"; then
-		ALOT_UPDATE="yes"
-	fi
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	find "${S}" -name '*.py' -print0 | xargs -0 -- sed \
-		-e '1i# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-' -i || die
-
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-
-	local md
-	for md in *.md; do
-		mv "${md}" "${md%.md}"
-	done
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	distutils-r1_src_compile
-
-	if use doc; then
-		pushd docs || die
-		emake html
-		popd || die
-	fi
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	distutils-r1_src_install
-
-	dodir /usr/share/alot
-	insinto /usr/share/alot
-	doins -r extra
-
-	if use doc; then
-		dohtml -r docs/build/html/*
-	fi
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	if [[ ${ALOT_UPDATE} = yes ]]; then
-		ewarn "The syntax of theme-files and custom tags-sections of the config"
-		ewarn "has been changed.  You have to revise your config.  There are"
-		ewarn "converter scripts in /usr/share/alot/extra to help you out with"
-		ewarn "this:"
-		ewarn ""
-		ewarn "  * tagsections_convert.py for your ~/.config/alot/config"
-		ewarn "  * theme_convert.py to update your custom theme files"
-	fi
-}
diff --git a/mail-client/alot/alot-0.6.ebuild b/mail-client/alot/alot-0.6.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 9ac4153a9cdc9..0000000000000
--- a/mail-client/alot/alot-0.6.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 vcs-snapshot
-
-DESCRIPTION="Experimental terminal UI for net-mail/notmuch written in Python"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/pazz/alot"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/pazz/alot/tarball/${PV} -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE="doc test"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-DEPEND="
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	doc? ( dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
-	test? ( dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
-	"
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/configobj-4.7.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=app-crypt/gpgme-1.9.0[python,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/python-magic[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/twisted-core-10.2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/urwid-1.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/urwidtrees-1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	net-mail/mailbase
-	>=net-mail/notmuch-0.13[crypt,python]
-	"
-
-python_prepare_all() {
-	find "${S}" -name '*.py' -exec sed -e '1i# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-' -i '{}' +
-
-	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
-}
-
-python_compile_all() {
-	if use doc; then
-		emake -C docs html
-		HTML_DOCS=( docs/build/html/. )
-	fi
-}
-
-python_install_all() {
-	distutils-r1_python_install_all
-
-	insinto /usr/share/alot
-	doins -r extra
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	if [[ -z ${REPLACING_VERSIONS} ]] ; then
-		echo
-		elog "If you are new to Alot you may want to take a look at"
-		elog "the user manual:"
-		elog "   https://alot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
-		echo
-	else
-		local rv
-		for rv in ${REPLACING_VERSIONS} ; do
-			if [[ "0.3.2" == "${rv}" ]]; then
-				ewarn ""
-				ewarn "The syntax of theme-files and custom tags-sections of the config"
-				ewarn "has been changed.  You have to revise your config.  There are"
-				ewarn "converter scripts in /usr/share/alot/extra to help you out with"
-				ewarn "this:"
-				ewarn ""
-				ewarn "  * tagsections_convert.py for your ~/.config/alot/config"
-				ewarn "  * theme_convert.py to update your custom theme files"
-				break;
-			fi
-			if [[ "0.5.1" == "${rv}" ]]; then
-				ewarn ""
-				ewarn "Since 0.6 version the GPG engine has switched to app-crypt/gpgme"
-				ewarn "to use GPG signing operations, you can pass the key id has arg"
-				ewarn "or setup the gpg_key value in your config file, see"
-				ewarn "  https://alot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/crypto.html?highlight=gpg"
-				ewarn ""
-				break;
-			fi
-		done
-	fi
-}
diff --git a/mail-client/alot/alot-0.7-r1.ebuild b/mail-client/alot/alot-0.7-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index ab4df39fe3b8a..0000000000000
--- a/mail-client/alot/alot-0.7-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 vcs-snapshot
-
-DESCRIPTION="Experimental terminal UI for net-mail/notmuch written in Python"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/pazz/alot"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/pazz/alot/tarball/${PV} -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE="doc test"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-DEPEND="
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	doc? ( dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
-	test? ( dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
-	"
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/configobj-4.7.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=app-crypt/gpgme-1.9.0[python,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/python-magic[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/twisted[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/urwid-1.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/urwidtrees-1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	net-mail/mailbase
-	>=net-mail/notmuch-0.13[crypt,python]
-	"
-
-python_prepare_all() {
-	find "${S}" -name '*.py' -exec sed -e '1i# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-' -i '{}' +
-
-	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
-}
-
-python_compile_all() {
-	if use doc; then
-		emake -C docs html
-		HTML_DOCS=( docs/build/html/. )
-	fi
-}
-
-python_install_all() {
-	distutils-r1_python_install_all
-
-	insinto /usr/share/alot
-	doins -r extra
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	if [[ -z ${REPLACING_VERSIONS} ]] ; then
-		echo
-		elog "If you are new to Alot you may want to take a look at"
-		elog "the user manual:"
-		elog "   https://alot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
-		echo
-	else
-		local rv
-		for rv in ${REPLACING_VERSIONS} ; do
-			if [[ "0.3.2" == "${rv}" ]]; then
-				ewarn ""
-				ewarn "The syntax of theme-files and custom tags-sections of the config"
-				ewarn "has been changed.  You have to revise your config.  There are"
-				ewarn "converter scripts in /usr/share/alot/extra to help you out with"
-				ewarn "this:"
-				ewarn ""
-				ewarn "  * tagsections_convert.py for your ~/.config/alot/config"
-				ewarn "  * theme_convert.py to update your custom theme files"
-				break;
-			fi
-			if [[ "0.5.1" == "${rv}" ]]; then
-				ewarn ""
-				ewarn "Since 0.6 version the GPG engine has switched to app-crypt/gpgme"
-				ewarn "to use GPG signing operations, you can pass the key id has arg"
-				ewarn "or setup the gpg_key value in your config file, see"
-				ewarn "  https://alot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/crypto.html?highlight=gpg"
-				ewarn ""
-				break;
-			fi
-		done
-	fi
-}
diff --git a/mail-client/alot/alot-0.7.ebuild b/mail-client/alot/alot-0.7.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 9ac4153a9cdc9..0000000000000
--- a/mail-client/alot/alot-0.7.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 vcs-snapshot
-
-DESCRIPTION="Experimental terminal UI for net-mail/notmuch written in Python"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/pazz/alot"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/pazz/alot/tarball/${PV} -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE="doc test"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-DEPEND="
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	doc? ( dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
-	test? ( dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
-	"
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/configobj-4.7.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=app-crypt/gpgme-1.9.0[python,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/python-magic[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/twisted-core-10.2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/urwid-1.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/urwidtrees-1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	net-mail/mailbase
-	>=net-mail/notmuch-0.13[crypt,python]
-	"
-
-python_prepare_all() {
-	find "${S}" -name '*.py' -exec sed -e '1i# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-' -i '{}' +
-
-	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
-}
-
-python_compile_all() {
-	if use doc; then
-		emake -C docs html
-		HTML_DOCS=( docs/build/html/. )
-	fi
-}
-
-python_install_all() {
-	distutils-r1_python_install_all
-
-	insinto /usr/share/alot
-	doins -r extra
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	if [[ -z ${REPLACING_VERSIONS} ]] ; then
-		echo
-		elog "If you are new to Alot you may want to take a look at"
-		elog "the user manual:"
-		elog "   https://alot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
-		echo
-	else
-		local rv
-		for rv in ${REPLACING_VERSIONS} ; do
-			if [[ "0.3.2" == "${rv}" ]]; then
-				ewarn ""
-				ewarn "The syntax of theme-files and custom tags-sections of the config"
-				ewarn "has been changed.  You have to revise your config.  There are"
-				ewarn "converter scripts in /usr/share/alot/extra to help you out with"
-				ewarn "this:"
-				ewarn ""
-				ewarn "  * tagsections_convert.py for your ~/.config/alot/config"
-				ewarn "  * theme_convert.py to update your custom theme files"
-				break;
-			fi
-			if [[ "0.5.1" == "${rv}" ]]; then
-				ewarn ""
-				ewarn "Since 0.6 version the GPG engine has switched to app-crypt/gpgme"
-				ewarn "to use GPG signing operations, you can pass the key id has arg"
-				ewarn "or setup the gpg_key value in your config file, see"
-				ewarn "  https://alot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/crypto.html?highlight=gpg"
-				ewarn ""
-				break;
-			fi
-		done
-	fi
-}