Am 06.04.20 um 10:38 schrieb Andrea Brancatelli: > You all realise there are a lot of commit coming in on GitHub, right? > > https://github.com/dbmail/dbmail/commits/master
if nobody manages releases tha don't help much given my expierience back when upgrade to 3.0 and especially 3.1 that#s the reason that i even don't consider update to 3.2 in both cases 3ö0 and 3.1 we had massive issues like completly empty mails with pop3, all sort of broken mails over imap depending on the mail body at reconstruction and it#s even unclear if all the bugfix fopr latest 3.1 made it to github when i face similar issues as with the latest point update swith a non existent upstream making quick bugfiox releases i can commit suicide > 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. _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nfg.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
