On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 22:34 +0100, Peter Bowyer wrote:
> 2008/5/20 Jeroen van Aart <kroshka@???>:
> > Jeremy Harris wrote:
> >> Time you upgraded to a version-4 exim. Six years is
> >> forever, in internet time. Few people here will
> >> be able to help you with version 3.
> >
> > I agree. Though why are so many mailservers running ancient software
> > such as sendmail and qmail? Or are those still actively receiving
> > patches? Is it just because people find it too daunting a task to
> > migrate, or perhaps it's mostly a political (holy war style) issue.
>
> Sendmail is actively maintained. Qmail is not, and never really was -
> although there are third-party patchsets, the core code's odd
> licensing arrangements mean the patches will never be adopted into the
> product.
QMail has been released to the public domain:
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html
>
> Peter
>
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