On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 22:34 +0100, Peter Bowyer wrote: > 2008/5/20 Jeroen van Aart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Jeremy Harris wrote: > >> Time you upgraded to a version-4 exim. Six years is > >> forever, in internet time. Few people here will > >> be able to help you with version 3. > > > > I agree. Though why are so many mailservers running ancient software > > such as sendmail and qmail? Or are those still actively receiving > > patches? Is it just because people find it too daunting a task to > > migrate, or perhaps it's mostly a political (holy war style) issue. > > Sendmail is actively maintained. Qmail is not, and never really was - > although there are third-party patchsets, the core code's odd > licensing arrangements mean the patches will never be adopted into the > product. QMail has been released to the public domain: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html
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