RE: What happened to mailman

Thank you for giving some reasons for these absences. I may not agree with
or like them, but I can deal with them. I can't deal well with silence.

/Thomas Kern
/301-903-2211 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Nottingham [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:19
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: What happened to mailman
> 
> 
> D Canfield (canfield-8SAP/[email protected]) said: 
> > Why won't anyone from RedHat answer the simple question as to why
> > mailman won't be included in 3.0?  It seems like a simple 
> one-sentence
> > answer would suffice.
> 
> Don't take all of this as gospel; it's all to the best of my 
> recollection:
> 
> mailman wasn't included because of:
> 
> a) the general level of customization required for install
> b) the past security history of it
> 
> openldap-2.1 was not included I believe because of security
> reasons.
> 
> dovecot isn't fully cooked yet; the author IIRC is still working
> on the index format some, and it doesn't support things like GSSAPI.
> 
> Bill
> 
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