alexus writes:
0.60.42008-05-08 Mr. Sam <[email protected]> * Makefile: Drop the unmaintained authvchkpw module. --- so this is it? just like that? I don't know if you realize it, but yet a lot of us still using it and even if not majority ... there is a lot of us out there, and I don't know in terms of maintains wise, but it never gave me any problems at all,
You are in a small minority. Most people had plenty of issues with it, and nobody could help them, since -- despite your claims of vchkpw's popularity -- its userbase is practically non-existent.
Qmail is dead, and has been dead for many years now. And without Qmail, vchkpw has no future. Anyone who has concerns about long term future of their mail platform, should've made plans long ago to migrate from Qmail to any one of many other actively used mail servers. The remaining Qmail user base is just the existing, legacy servers. Nobody with a sane mind would install a brand new Qmail server these days. Not when it lacks pretty much every feature all modern mail servers are expected to offer, and especially if installing it automatically qualifies one for blacklisting as a source of abusive backscatter bounce bombs. I've got more than a thousand IPs blacklisted for mailbombing me with garbage bounces -- I'd say at least a third of them are Qmail-running morons.
Can't someone help us out here?
Although there were several offers to maintain vchkpw support in Courier -- and the offer to become a co-maintainer of the vchkpw module is still open to anyone who wants to take it -- once they realize what kind of commitment that involves, nobody followed through. The best help anyone will be able to offer you is advice on migrating off Qmail to something that's actually had a new release, in the last couple of years.
If someone volunteered to step up to the plate and be responsible for maintaining vchkpw code, they are welcome to do so. But nobody seriously did it, in more than six months now, so the realistic chances of that happening are slim to none.
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