here is one that I had on my watch list in git

https://github.com/msimerson/Mail-Toaster-6 
<https://github.com/msimerson/Mail-Toaster-6>



> On Dec 11, 2020, at 8:36 AM, Tahnan Al Anas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> I am not sure what this thread is about, but I heard FreeBSD, have you 
> checked https://www.xfiles.dk/guide-on-how-to-install-qmail-on-freebsd/ 
> <https://www.xfiles.dk/guide-on-how-to-install-qmail-on-freebsd/>? I once 
> used that and it did work. And the guy is also my friend. 
> 
> 
> --
> --
> 
> Best Regards
> Muhammad Tahnan Al Anas
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:24 PM Eric Broch <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> And, some humor...
> 
> https://centos.rip <https://centos.rip/>
> 
> On 12/11/2020 6:52 AM, Eric Broch wrote:
>> This looks like good news: https://github.com/rocky-linux 
>> <https://github.com/rocky-linux>
>> On another note: IBM bought/acquired 
>> <https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future>
>>  Red Hat.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/10/2020 8:35 AM, Eric Broch wrote:
>>> Fellow QMT enthusiasts:
>>> 
>>> I became concerned about the future of CentOS a week or so ago (not a 
>>> premonition just my natural paranoia) prior to their announcement two days 
>>> back and visited centos.org <http://centos.org/> to relieve my fears. I was 
>>> confident at that point that having gotten QMT/CentOS 8 ready I was good to 
>>> go for ~10 years. My confidence MAY have been hasty. I'm still not sure 
>>> what drawbacks 'stream' is going to bring, if any, and like Angus am 
>>> apprehensive. It's supposed to be an intermediate environment between 
>>> Fedora and RHEL. In my opinion, to release CentOS 8 and then move it from 
>>> downstream to upstream after people have already migrated is short-sighted 
>>> at the very least, and its name Community Enterprise OS (8) is now a 
>>> misnomer. Living in somewhat of a cocoon, I was completely unaware that RH 
>>> "joined" CentOS. I've heard some say that we've been freeloading off CentOS 
>>> for years and now it's time to pay up. Never mind that a free kernel is 
>>> used and we actually test the software and report bugs. That said, I have 
>>> REALLY enjoyed using CentOS since the beginning. 
>>> 
>>> That said, having a look at the old spec files from *-toaster designation 
>>> days when we built the QMT for specific platforms, Fedora, was among them 
>>> along with Suse, Mandrake, so, at the beginning QMT was used in a 
>>> non-Enterprise environment. Anyway...
>>> 
>>> Personally, I'm interested in both Debian and FreeBSD and would like to go 
>>> back halfway to multi-platform builds while keeping the current QMT/CentOS 
>>> 8 offering. This would mitigate the problems, if there are any, we are 
>>> seeing now (hopefully). I guess it just depends on when (or if) the 
>>> mega-corps buy up all of the Linux distributions and hang us all out to 
>>> dry. Given the Felliniesque nature of the world today nothing would 
>>> surprise me anymore.
>>> 
>>> One advantage of having a ports like mail server is the ability, if one is 
>>> inclined to dig a little beyond binary installs, to make changes on the fly 
>>> without having to wait for packages from the repo.
>>> 
>>> I've tried to install FreeBSD, although somewhat half-heartedly, on Proxmox 
>>> serveral times with no success. If anyone has any hints I'm all ears...just 
>>> my 2 cents.
>>> 
>>> So, if anyone is working on installing QMT on another platform please keep 
>>> us apprised of your successes. If you feel like writing it up, I'll post it 
>>> to the web site.
>>> 
>>> I'll be looking into converting to *.deb packages (like rpm's, binary ease 
>>> of install) in some way (I tried using alien...on the website) which can be 
>>> used on Ubuntu and Debian Linux. Back to work for me...
>>> 
>>> Eric B.
>>> 
>>> On 12/9/2020 7:31 PM, Tony White wrote:
>>>> Hi all, 
>>>>   Anyone interested in BSD either Free or Open? 
>>>> I am starting to work on building a FreeBSD version 
>>>> of this for myself. Would like to know if anyone 
>>>> else is interested. 
>>>> 
>>>> best wishes 
>>>>   Tony White 
>>>> 
>>>> On 10/12/20 6:49 am, Unai Rodriguez wrote: 
>>>>> Debian! 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- unai 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, at 8:20 PM, Boheme wrote: 
>>>>>> I’ve been meaning to learn to compile all the source for Ubuntu for a 
>>>>>> while. This may be the kick in the pants I needed. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -Sent from my Pip-Boy 3000 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 10/12/2020, at 12:50 AM, Angus McIntyre <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Does anyone have any thoughts on the likely future of qmailtoaster 
>>>>>>> given the new plans for CentOS? 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> (See https://centos.org/distro-faq/ <https://centos.org/distro-faq/> 
>>>>>>> for more details) 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'd never actually heard of CentOS Stream before today, but having just 
>>>>>>> painfully built a working toaster on top of CentOS 8, I'm a little 
>>>>>>> apprehensive about the impact of the proposed changes. 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Comments? 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Angus 
>>>>>>> 
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