Re: Installations problems with dbmail 3.2.3

Don't be rude. 

What I'm saying is exactly reported in the link you gave: 

"The original company behind MySQL, MySQL AB, were bought out by Sun
which was then bought by Oracle. Recent changes made by Oracle indicate
they are moving the MySQL project to be more closed. They are no longer
publishing any useful information about security issues (CVEs), and they
are not providing complete regression tests any more, and a very large
fraction of the mysql bug database is now not public. 

MariaDB, which was founded by some of the original MySQL developers, has
a more open-source attitude and an active community. We have found them
to be much easier to work with, especially in regards to security
matters." 

Read it differently: a few years ago a lot of FUD was spread abut MySQL
going closed, but that didn't happen. 

The only nonsense here is your statement: 

_"BUT looking that RHEL no longer ships oracle MySQl and most other
distributions switched to MariaDB as well as big players like Wikipedia
Oracle MySQL is dead - period"_ 

Actually, as you said a few minutes later, RHEL ships Oracle MySQL as
"community-mysql", as do FreeBSD, and any other distribution. 

Oracle MySQL is not dead at all, and was actually faster than MariaDB (
https://mariadb.org/maria-10-1-mysql-5-7-commodity-hardware/ )
previously and it's actually probably faster now as MySQL 8 is faster
than MySQL 5.7 (
http://dimitrik.free.fr/blog/archives/2017/10/mysql-performance-21m-qps-on-80rc.html
). 

BTW, relax, none of this is gonna change our life - we're just talking. 

Use whatever you prefer, for the reason you like.

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On 2017-10-12 14:05, Reindl Harald wrote:

> Am 12.10.2017 um 13:59 schrieb Andrea Brancatelli: 
> 
>> RHEL doesn't ship MySQL as default anymore just because of licensing issues, not because of any problem of any kind
> 
> stop speading nonsense - especially don#t explain me as a heavy Fedora/RHEL users reading all developemnt lists for a decade decisions of Redhat please
> 
> it does because the direct upstream Fedora switched years ago and if licensing problems would be the reason Fedora would not at the same time contain "community-mysql" in the repos which is in fact Oralce MySQL
> 
> here some backkround
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ReplaceMySQLwithMariaDB
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