Re: eQmail or s/qmail

Hi chitta,


On Sun, 15 May 2016 15:04:28 +0530 (IST), [email protected] wrote :

> In linux most packages are distributed as rpms; packages providing
> additional functionality also come that way making maintenance easier.

Hm. Never heard of *.deb packages ? And the following formats:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_format


> Additional configuration should be well structured. A good example
> being Apache. Qmail, somehow, never took that route. That is why it
> takes a specialist to use qmail and they are invariably in short
> supply.

Actually, qmail *was* packaged as rpm (together with my Spamcontrol)* ) but the maintainer 
left or does not follow up it anymore.

It is the shortage of maintainers, in the first place.

Actually, I've seen cases, where the maintainer messed up the sources while providing some 
'combined' patches.


regards.
--eh. 

*) Hey, this would be an additional thought and input for the qmail history web-site.