On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote:
> Nick Edwards: > > Another quick question before I depart for work, I understand also (from > > that other lists thread) that postfix does not support maildir++ , with > that > > curiosity, I googled and found mention of it not being introduced due to > > possible race conditions, but the latest mentions were from 2006, here we > > are 2010, with a lot of software using maildir++ rather happily, so, has > > this been more recently reconsidered , yet still rejected? > > For code to be part of Postfix, it needs to be better than "did > not produce errors when I ran it". It needs to be clear what > problems the code defends against. > > Yes, I recall your comments in that thread, and I whole heatedly agree with your philosophy which you informed that poster of more than once if my memory serves me correct. It is why I have excluded dovecot from my choice, what is unseen today, may well be a universal catastrophe tomorrow. The maildir++ patch at the time did not meet this basic requirement, > and the limited time I have for Postfix has gone into other things. > > So I can't make any promises when maildir++ support will be part of > Postfix. > > That is ok, nothing has broken or failed with the myriad of large installations running it now, I doubt the world will fall apart if you don't have time for another 4 years or so. Nick
