Re: [exim] Exim development

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Mike Cardwell wrote:
> Odhiambo ワシントン wrote:
>
>>>> We all know what Exim is great MTA. But were is now new releases of it
>>>> since 20.12.2007.
>>>>
>>>> One question - why? Is Exim development stopped?
>>>> Were is so many thing what can be improved.
>>
>> http://lists.exim.org/lurker/list/exim-dev.html
>>
>> But is there anything critical that Exim is missing in its current state?
>> Improvements are always welcome, via patches, and as much as I know, no
>> software is mature enough not to require further improvements, like getting
>> it to make your coffee and so forth.. but what matters is what is *critical*
>> .
>
> I wouldn't say this is "critical", but I feel that it is "important"
> that DKIM is fully finished and included in the latest stable release
> and in default distribution packages, without people having to roll
> their own. A modern MUA should have this functionality by default.
>


S'pose DKM/DKIM wouldn't do as much damage if it *WERE* restricted to
use in MUA's ...

... but I suspect you meant 'MTA' vice 'MUA', and if so, it is an
invented-in-Redmond sort of 'functionality' of which you speak:

- increase the workload on the sending box to compute and add a crypted sig

- increase the workload on the receiving box to check the sender's
stated usage (lookup), then validate each specific message,

- use a smidgen more bandwidth to move the traffic....

- use a smidgen more space to store it

- And:

... fail to accomplish anything with any certainty at the end of all the
masturbation...

You were joking about such nonsense being a 'default', yah?

Bill