Re: Future of DBMail ?

Hi,

On 08/01/2018 15:52, Thomas Raschbacher wrote:
> Hi all & especially Paul ;)
> 
> Hope you all are having a good start into the new year.
> 
> I just thought it would be nice to know if there are any plans for 
> DBMail's future (or lack thereof?)
Plans, or at least ideas, yes. dbmail would benefit from ability to 
handle multiple requests per session.
There is an outstanding task to fix the MySQL 5.7 (showstopper) bug.

> 
> I was going to check git.dbmail.eu, but it seems it is not working anymore?
> the only thing i found was paul's dbmail repo on github, which i assume 
> to be the current up2date one.
There is a fork at https://github.com/alan-hicks/dbmail

> 
> Is DBmail going to be maintained/"supported"/developed further at all, 
> or do we need to consider it to be in need of a new Maintainer / 
> dev(group) ?
Dbmail is stable and requires very little maintenance.
Contributors always welcome!
Personal contributions are likely to be llimited, the UK is not 
currently a great place to be unless you are in the top 5%.

> 
> -- not trying to offend anyone here, so if I missed somethign just point 
> it out please, but I am a bit worried about the future (since I am using 
> dbmail both for my private mail server and at work too).
I'm still using dbmail here and it's proven resilient and reliable. I've 
not found a database backed equivalent so intend to continue.

As it's open source, you have access to the source code.

Regards,
Alan

> 
> Regards,
>    Thomas Raschbacher
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