Re: dbmail configuration

Andrea Brancatelli <[email protected]> Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:38:32 +0200
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You all realise there are a lot of commit coming in on GitHub, right? 

https://github.com/dbmail/dbmail/commits/master

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Andrea Brancatelli

On 2020-04-06 10:25, Daniel Urstöger wrote:

>> if you can that esaily.... and the uqaliuty of dovecot is also shitty, i
>> know one which swicthed, just other rpoblems and never update short
>> after a release
>> 
>> i have implemented 6000 lines of code for backends, automation and
>> infrastructure integration back in 2009 and spent hundrest of ours to
>> get the fucking 3.0 and 3.1 versions debugged and then upstream
>> disappears from one day to another
> 
> I understand that people are very upset but by now everyone should realize that Paul has dropped the project and moved on. Dbmail came free and is open source so be happy while it lasted and be grateful to Paul, he made an awesome product!
> 
> So whilst the move to GitHub was brilliant its just one of the projects which is hard to maintain, as IMAP, LMTP, etc. are not easy to understand protocols so it never got much traction there and to be honest there are surely not so many C-savvy  people out there these days as well as the few pull request that came in didn't get merged and there wasn't a successful fork.
> 
> Also since there are alternatives out there that work really well, I used courier for many years now and moved to dovecot later on, well, there is not much demand for dbmail and if Paul doesn't make a grand return, lets face it: dbmail won't progress.
> 
> So, I also spent a great deal of time with dbmail setups and I even wrote a whole webmail application for it, which specifically blew away roundcube and others because it could fetch data directly from the database layer, but well, thats the past lets move on.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
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<p>You all realise there are a lot of commit coming in on GitHub, right?</p=
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<p>https://github.com/dbmail/dbmail/commits/master</p>
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<pre><strong>Andrea Brancatelli
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<p>On 2020-04-06 10:25, Daniel Urst&ouml;ger wrote:</p>
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px solid; margin: 0">if you can that esaily.... and the uqaliuty of dovecot=
 is also shitty, i<br /> know one which swicthed, just other rpoblems and n=
ever update short<br /> after a release<br /> <br /> i have implemented 600=
0 lines of code for backends, automation and<br /> infrastructure integrati=
on back in 2009 and spent hundrest of ours to<br /> get the fucking 3.0 and=
 3.1 versions debugged and then upstream<br /> disappears from one day to a=
nother</blockquote>
<br /> I understand that people are very upset but by now everyone should r=
ealize that Paul has dropped the project and moved on. Dbmail came free and=
 is open source so be happy while it lasted and be grateful to Paul, he mad=
e an awesome product!<br /> <br /> So whilst the move to GitHub was brillia=
nt its just one of the projects which is hard to maintain, as IMAP, LMTP, e=
tc. are not easy to understand protocols so it never got much traction ther=
e and to be honest there are surely not so many C-savvy &nbsp;people out th=
ere these days as well as the few pull request that came in didn't get merg=
ed and there wasn't a successful fork.<br /> <br /> Also since there are al=
ternatives out there that work really well, I used courier for many years n=
ow and moved to dovecot later on, well, there is not much demand for dbmail=
 and if Paul doesn't make a grand return, lets face it: dbmail won't progre=
ss.<br /> <br /> So, I also spent a great deal of time with dbmail setups a=
nd I even wrote a whole webmail application for it, which specifically blew=
 away roundcube and others because it could fetch data directly from the da=
tabase layer, but well, thats the past lets move on.<br /> <br /> Cheers,<b=
r /> Daniel<br /> _______________________________________________<br /> DBm=
ail mailing list<br /> <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">DBmail@lists=
=2Enfg.nl</a><br /> <a href=3D"https://lists.nfg.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinf=
o/dbmail" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer">https://lists.nfg=
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