diff --git a/news/tin/Makefile b/news/tin/Makefile
index 8ba345e9678e..5a1a312c8efd 100644
--- a/news/tin/Makefile
+++ b/news/tin/Makefile
@@ -1,106 +1,106 @@
 PORTNAME=	tin
 PORTVERSION=	2.6.2
 CATEGORIES+=	news
 MASTER_SITES=	ftp://ftp.tin.org/pub/news/clients/tin/v${PORTVERSION:R}/ \
 		ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/news/readers/tin/v${PORTVERSION:R}/ \
 		ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/news/tin/v${PORTVERSION:R}/ \
 		ftp://ftp.ka.nu/pub/news/clients/tin/v${PORTVERSION:R}/ \
 		ftp://ftp.tau.ac.il/pub/unix/news/tin/v${PORTVERSION:R}/ \
 		ftp://ftp.cuhk.edu.hk/pub/packages/news/tin/v${PORTVERSION:R}/ \
 		ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/news/tin-unoff/ \
 		ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/unix/news/readers/tin-unoff/ \
 		ftp://ftp.karlsruhe.org/pub/news/clients/tin/v${PORTVERSION:R}/ \
 		ftp://ftp.akk.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/news/clients/tin/v${PORTVERSION:R}/ \
 		ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/net/news/tin/v${PORTVERSION:R}/ \
 		ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/soft/news/tin/v${PORTVERSION:R}/
 
-MAINTAINER=	kbowling@FreeBSD.org
+MAINTAINER?=	kbowling@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Easy-to-use threaded newsreader with NOV/NNTP support
 WWW=		http://www.tin.org/
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libicuuc.so:devel/icu \
 		libpcre2-8.so:devel/pcre2 \
 		libuu.so:converters/uulib
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${LOCALBASE}/etc/mime.types:misc/mime-support
 
 USES=		gmake iconv ncurses pkgconfig shebangfix tar:bzip2
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 SHEBANG_FILES=	tools/opt-case.pl tools/tinews.pl tools/url_handler.pl \
 		tools/w2r.pl
 TIN_EDITOR?=	/usr/bin/ee
 TIN_SCREEN?=	ncursesw
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=			CANLOCK GNUPG ISPELL METAMAIL NLS NNTP_ONLY \
 				NNTPS SLRNFACE
 OPTIONS_DEFAULT=		GNUPG ISPELL METAMAIL NNTPS
 OPTIONS_SUB=			yes
 NNTP_ONLY_DESC=			Only read news via NNTP (no spool dir support)
 NNTP_ONLY_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	nntp-only
 NNTPS_DESC=			Enable NNTPS
 NNTPS_USES=			ssl
 NNTPS_CONFIGURE_ON=		--with-nntps
 GNUPG_RUN_DEPENDS=		gpg:security/gnupg
 GNUPG_CONFIGURE_ON=		--with-gpg=${LOCALBASE}/bin/gpg \
 				--without-pgp \
 				--without-pgpk
 GNUPG_CONFIGURE_OFF=		--disable-pgp-gpg
 ISPELL_RUN_DEPENDS=		ispell:textproc/aspell-ispell
 ISPELL_CONFIGURE_ON=		--with-ispell=${LOCALBASE}/bin/ispell
 METAMAIL_DESC?=			Use metamail to handle MIME attachments
 METAMAIL_RUN_DEPENDS=		metamail:mail/metamail
 METAMAIL_CONFIGURE_ON=		--with-metamail=${LOCALBASE}/bin/metamail
 CANLOCK_DESC=			Enable Cancel-Lock key support via libcanlock
 CANLOCK_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	cancel-locks
 NLS_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=		nls
 NLS_USES=			gettext
 SLRNFACE_DESC?=			Use slrnface to displace sender images
 SLRNFACE_CONFIGURE_WITH=	slrnface=slrnface
 SLRNFACE_BUILD_DEPENDS=		slrnface:news/slrnface
 SLRNFACE_RUN_DEPENDS=		slrnface:news/slrnface
 
 # --with-mime-default-charset=US-ASCII needed to build tin in the non-ascii
 # national environment.
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	${ICONV_CONFIGURE_ARG} \
 			--enable-break-long-lines \
 			--enable-ipv6 \
 			--with-defaults-dir=${PREFIX}/etc \
 			--with-editor=${TIN_EDITOR} \
 			--with-libdir=${PREFIX}/news/lib \
 			--with-mime-default-charset=US-ASCII \
 			--with-nntp-default-server=news \
 			--with-pcre2-config=${PREFIX}/bin/pcre2-config \
 			--with-screen=${TIN_SCREEN} \
 			--with-spooldir=/var/news
 MAKE_ARGS+=		MAKE=${MAKE_CMD}
 CFLAGS+=		-DNNTP_SERVER_FILE=\\\"${PREFIX}/etc/nntpserver\\\"
 CPPFLAGS+=		-I${LOCALBASE}/include
 LDFLAGS+=		-L${LOCALBASE}/lib
 ALL_TARGET=		build
 
 post-patch:
 	${REINPLACE_CMD} -Ee 's:5/(mmdf|mbox):5/tin_\1:g' \
 		${WRKSRC}/src/Makefile.in
 	${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's:/var/spool/news:/var/news:g' \
 		-e 's:/etc/nntpserver:${PREFIX}/etc/nntpserver:g' \
 		-e 's:/usr/lib/news:${PREFIX}/news/lib:g' \
 		-e 's:/etc/mime\.types:${PREFIX}/etc/mime.types:g' \
 		-e 's:url_handler\.pl:tinurl_handler.pl:g' \
 		${WRKSRC}/doc/tin.1 ${WRKSRC}/doc/tin.5
 	${REINPLACE_CMD} \
 		-e 's:/etc/mime\.types:${PREFIX}/etc/mime.types:g' \
 		${WRKSRC}/src/mimetypes.c
 	${REINPLACE_CMD} \
 		-e 's:url_handler\.pl:tinurl_handler.pl:g' \
 		${WRKSRC}/src/Makefile.in ${WRKSRC}/include/tin.h
 	${MV}   ${WRKSRC}/tools/url_handler.pl \
 		${WRKSRC}/tools/tinurl_handler.pl
 
 post-install:
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/doc/tin.defaults \
 		${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/tin.defaults.sample
 	${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin/tin
 	${LN} -sf tin ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin/rtin
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/news/tin/files/patch-configure b/news/tin/files/patch-configure
index d2a70f20232f..9ffb404a5c78 100644
--- a/news/tin/files/patch-configure
+++ b/news/tin/files/patch-configure
@@ -1,29 +1,49 @@
---- configure.orig	2023-01-26 00:10:06 UTC
+--- configure.orig	2022-12-24 23:00:29 UTC
 +++ configure
 @@ -13804,7 +13804,7 @@ case "$host_os" in
  fi
  
  case "$host_os" in
 -freebsd*)
 +XXXfreebsd*)
  	# This is only necessary if you are linking against an obsolete
  	# version of ncurses (but it should do no harm, since it is static).
  	if test "$cf_nculib_root" = ncurses ; then
 @@ -16120,7 +16120,7 @@ case "$host_os" in
  fi
  
  case "$host_os" in
 -freebsd*)
 +XXXfreebsd*)
  	# This is only necessary if you are linking against an obsolete
  	# version of ncurses (but it should do no harm, since it is static).
  	if test "$cf_nculib_root" = ncurses ; then
 @@ -16983,7 +16983,7 @@ case "$host_os" in
  
  if test "$cf_result" = no ; then
  case "$host_os" in
 -freebsd*)
 +XXXfreebsd*)
  	echo "$as_me:16987: checking for tgoto in -lmytinfo" >&5
  echo $ECHO_N "checking for tgoto in -lmytinfo... $ECHO_C" >&6
  if test "${ac_cv_lib_mytinfo_tgoto+set}" = set; then
+@@ -21363,13 +21363,15 @@ fi
+ 
+        if test "$enable_nntps" = "yes" && test "$have_libtls" = "no" || test "$enable_nntps" = "openssl"; then
+ 
+-if test "$PKG_CONFIG" != none && "$PKG_CONFIG" --exists "openssl"; then
+-	test -n "$verbose" && echo "	found package openssl" 1>&6
++## FreeBSD: Work around stupidity where base doesn't ship openssl pkg-config data
++#if test "$PKG_CONFIG" != none && "$PKG_CONFIG" --exists "openssl"; then
++#	test -n "$verbose" && echo "	found package openssl" 1>&6
++if true; then
+ 
+ echo "${as_me:-configure}:21369: testing found package openssl ..." 1>&5
+ 
+-	cf_pkgconfig_incs="`$PKG_CONFIG --cflags "openssl" 2>/dev/null`"
+-	cf_pkgconfig_libs="`$PKG_CONFIG --libs   "openssl" 2>/dev/null`"
++	cf_pkgconfig_incs=""
++	cf_pkgconfig_libs="-lssl -lcrypto"
+ 	test -n "$verbose" && echo "	package openssl CFLAGS: $cf_pkgconfig_incs" 1>&6
+ 
+ echo "${as_me:-configure}:21375: testing package openssl CFLAGS: $cf_pkgconfig_incs ..." 1>&5
diff --git a/news/tin/files/patch-include_autoconf.hin b/news/tin/files/patch-include_autoconf.hin
index c5b87df17956..efea776aee4b 100644
--- a/news/tin/files/patch-include_autoconf.hin
+++ b/news/tin/files/patch-include_autoconf.hin
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
---- include/autoconf.hin.orig	2015-11-22 01:15:52.000000000 +0100
-+++ include/autoconf.hin	2016-01-16 18:09:27.785884000 +0100
-@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
+--- include/autoconf.hin.orig	2022-12-09 09:03:48 UTC
++++ include/autoconf.hin
+@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
  
  /* compiler, compilerflags, ... */
  #	undef TIN_CC
 -#	undef TIN_CFLAGS
  #	undef TIN_CPP
  #	undef TIN_CPPFLAGS
  #	undef TIN_LD