Re: qmail package in bullseye

From	ed neville <ed-debian@s5h.net>
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Subject	Re: qmail package in bullseye
Date	2021-12-24 16:50 +0100
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On 2021-12-24 17:00+0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
> On 12/24/21 14:58, 황병희 wrote:
> > Hi, there is no qmail package in bullseye. what's wrong?
> The software seems unmaintained for a long time [1]. According to
> wikipedia the last release is from 1998 and I think there was an
> incompatibility with the qmail's license and Debian. I've never seen
> qmail's binary packages in Debian. I think there were tools in Debian
> which allowed users to compile qmail on their own.
> 
> If you are looking for SMTP you can look at Postfix and Exim.

qmail is now public domain, so the licence shouldn't be a problem now.

  <http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html>

qmail with JMS's patchset has been mostly just fine for me. However, if 
I were doing things again, I would suggest postfix since things like SSL 
are included and it follows some of the compartmentalised design of 
qmail.

Ed

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qmail package in bullseye 황병희 <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> - 2021-12-24 14:00 +0100
  Re: qmail package in bullseye Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-12-24 14:10 +0100
    Re: qmail package in bullseye 황병희 <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> - 2021-12-24 14:40 +0100
  Re: qmail package in bullseye Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2021-12-24 14:10 +0100
  Re: qmail package in bullseye Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-12-24 14:30 +0100
    Re: qmail package in bullseye 황병희 <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> - 2021-12-24 15:00 +0100
      Re: qmail package in bullseye Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-12-24 16:30 +0100
        Re: qmail package in bullseye 황병희 <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> - 2021-12-25 06:00 +0100
  Re: qmail package in bullseye Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2021-12-24 16:10 +0100
    Re: qmail package in bullseye ed neville <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2021-12-24 16:50 +0100

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