On 21/05/2008, Richard Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
I stand corrected. -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/peeebeee -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
