[Gllug] ezmlm status?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 03:16:45PM +0000, Doug Winter wrote:
> On Thu 11 Mar Sarah Ewen wrote:
> > What happened? Was it dropped because qmail is becoming less popular?
> > Was there something in particular that happened? Have Fred Lindberg
> > and Dan Bernstein gone into hiding?
> 
> qmail is effectively unmaintained, which has stopped a lot of people
> using it.  Ezmlm only works with qmail, so ezmlm is presumably becoming
> significantly less popular also.

Yeah, the fact that DJB's licensing terms don't permit re-packaging
or re-distribution of modified sources pretty much kill his software
dead as OSS projects. I might still be using QMail if I were allowed
to package it up & provide it in RPM form, or change its layout to
conform to the filesystem layouts standards or switch out its startup
process to use SysV init instead of daemontools. Its a shame, because
its generally very good software, just handicapped by (the typically
academic trait) of blind desire for perfection / 'the right way' instead
of realworld ease of use.

Dan.
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