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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