My biggest complaint with Qmail was that it was too fragmented for my taste. I
thought it might be a better project if it were maintained in the same manner
the Linux kernel is. Have you thought about that?
Ken
Quoting Philip Hazel <ph10@???>:
>
> (3) However, as I posted on this list some time ago, I feel that the
> time has come to take stock of the way Exim is maintained, and to plan
> for the future. I shall turn 60 next May, and therefore it is not so
> many years before I retire. At the moment, I can just about handle the
> maintenance and development, but it does not seem to be slackening - at
> one time I thought it might. Therefore, as previously posted, when I get
> back from Australia at the end of January, I intend to write a document
> that discusses possible future maintenance strategies and sets out the
> problems that I see in moving from the current "one-man-band"
> operation[*] to to a more distributed way of doing it. There is no
> hurry. We can take as long as necessary to discuss what the future
> direction should be, and then start working towards it. I think we
> should include in the discussion third party add-ons like Exiscan (I
> hope Tom agrees!). Another example is the code that supports Sieve - at
> present Michael sends me patches and I install them in the base.
>
> Philip
>
> [*] Preview: the big problems are going to be the documentation and the
> testing suite.
>
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Ken Lowther
Comprehensive Internet Services
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