Re: Future of DBMail ?

On 2018-01-08 18:01, Alan Hicks wrote:
> 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.

Nice to hear.

>> 
>> 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

I see. Does that mean you are filling in for Paul, or "taking over"(not 
in a hostile way of course)

> 
>> 
>> 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.
indeed it works well for me (still doing the regular daemon restarts to 
be on the safe side but that's fine)
> Contributors always welcome!

gladly would help if I had the time tbh ^^ - what I think I could 
probably help with time wise would be in sorting out some old stuff on 
the webpage,..

> 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.
> 
indeed, and i've read some parts of it and am fairly familiar with the 
DB structure itself, but if there were any real problems I wouldn't be 
able to quickly find it probably which is why I wrote this email ;)