Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

2007-12-05 Thread Rick Widmer



Christopher Chan wrote:





The question in my mind is who will own the name qmail, and what
product, if any, will bear that name. 


I don't know if it'll be approved, but I got the qmail project name on 
SourceForge, minutes after I heard it was put in public domain.


What license? GPL or BSD? :-D


Public Domain.  That is a valid choice on SouceForge.



I hope you can garner more support.


Me too...  We'll see I'm about to reply to you on the qmail list and 
we'll see what happens...



Rick




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Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

2007-12-05 Thread Christopher Chan



Public Domain.  That is a valid choice on SouceForge.



:-)




I hope you can garner more support.


Me too...  We'll see I'm about to reply to you on the qmail list and 
we'll see what happens...




Well, now that Charles has responded...

You did previously say that you would rather not have a qmail 
specifically for vpopmail. Are you going to stick to that? At the 
moment, I do not see netqmail adding support for user verification at 
rcpt to time in the near future...


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Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

2007-12-05 Thread Rick Widmer



Christopher Chan wrote:



Public Domain.  That is a valid choice on SouceForge.



:-)




I hope you can garner more support.


Me too...  We'll see I'm about to reply to you on the qmail list and 
we'll see what happens...




Well, now that Charles has responded...

You did previously say that you would rather not have a qmail 
specifically for vpopmail. Are you going to stick to that? 


Yes.  As far as I am concerned, the project is not possible without the 
support of the major qmail players.  I will probably see about shutting 
it down.


At the 
moment, I do not see netqmail adding support for user verification at 
rcpt to time in the near future...


We'll see what happens.  I haven't had a chance to look at netqmail-1.06 
yet, but I see it is now out.



Rick

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Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

2007-12-05 Thread Christopher Chan


Yes.  As far as I am concerned, the project is not possible without the 
support of the major qmail players.  I will probably see about shutting 
it down.


none of the lads here interested? I doubt many of you use vpopmail with 
postfix like i do and now that qmail is public domain, i will probably 
try to lift some code for a postfix qmail lda...but surely there is 
interest in a proper qmail based smtp frontend?




At the moment, I do not see netqmail adding support for user 
verification at rcpt to time in the near future...


We'll see what happens.  I haven't had a chance to look at netqmail-1.06 
yet, but I see it is now out.


Same as netqmail-1.04 plus the qmail-isoc patch for the qmail-smtpd 
signed integer bug. So no vpopmail user verification support.


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Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

2007-12-05 Thread aichains
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 19:05 -0700, Rick Widmer wrote:
 
 Christopher Chan wrote:
  
  Public Domain.  That is a valid choice on SouceForge.
 
  
  :-)
  
 
  I hope you can garner more support.
 
  Me too...  We'll see I'm about to reply to you on the qmail list and 
  we'll see what happens...
 
  
  Well, now that Charles has responded...
  
  You did previously say that you would rather not have a qmail 
  specifically for vpopmail. Are you going to stick to that? 
 
 Yes.  As far as I am concerned, the project is not possible without the 
 support of the major qmail players.  I will probably see about shutting 
 it down.
 
  At the 
  moment, I do not see netqmail adding support for user verification at 
  rcpt to time in the near future...
 
 We'll see what happens.  I haven't had a chance to look at netqmail-1.06 
 yet, but I see it is now out.
 
 
 Rick
 
 
 

it appears 1.06 is for legal purposes only...no changes to the codebase.
this is an excerpt from the top of netqmail-1.06/CHANGES

20071130 version: netqmail 1.06
20071130 legal: qmail-1.03 is now in the public domain
20051103 doc: dot-qmail.9 updated for changed (19980613) ...

btw the link on the homepage http://www.qmail.org/netqmail/CHANGES
still references the changelog from 1.05, but inside
http://www.qmail.org/netqmail-1.06.tar.gz tarball there is an updated
CHANGES file.


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Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

2007-12-04 Thread Christopher Chan


I don't know if it'll be approved, but I got the qmail project name on 
SourceForge, minutes after I heard it was put in public domain.




congrats on getting the qmail project name.

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Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

2007-12-03 Thread Tren Blackburn
Well, http://cr.yp.to has been his site for...ummm...I don't know when did time 
begin again? ;)

But yes, this would be the official place where the announcement would be. I 
must admit, I'm surprised, but happy qmail has been released. Just in time for 
Christmas too!

Regards,

Tren

- Original Message -
From: Boris Pavlov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vchkpw@inter7.com vchkpw@inter7.com
Sent: Mon Dec 03 07:41:34 2007
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

Quey wrote:
 Dan J Bernstein has recently put Qmail into the public domain,
  _http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html_
 
 
 

HAH! Is this confirmed in some way?




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Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

2007-12-03 Thread Shane Chrisp
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 17:41 +0200, Boris Pavlov wrote:
 Quey wrote:
  Dan J Bernstein has recently put Qmail into the public domain,
   _http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html_
  
  
  
 
 HAH! Is this confirmed in some way?

Well there is this as well. 
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/11/30/0430201.shtml


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Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

2007-12-03 Thread Boris Pavlov

Quey wrote:

Dan J Bernstein has recently put Qmail into the public domain,
 _http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html_





HAH! Is this confirmed in some way?

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Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

2007-12-03 Thread Michael Johnson
For those that don't mind Flash, there is also a video up on Google
Videos (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3147768955127254412)
where he announces it as well.

I just can't help but wonder if his action is too little too late.

 - Michael

Tren Blackburn wrote:
 Well, http://cr.yp.to has been his site for...ummm...I don't know when
 did time begin again? ;)
 
 But yes, this would be the official place where the announcement would
 be. I must admit, I'm surprised, but happy qmail has been released. Just
 in time for Christmas too!
 
 Regards,
 
 Tren
 
 - Original Message -
 From: Boris Pavlov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: vchkpw@inter7.com vchkpw@inter7.com
 Sent: Mon Dec 03 07:41:34 2007
 Subject: Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours
 
 Quey wrote:
 Dan J Bernstein has recently put Qmail into the public domain,
  _http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html_



 
 HAH! Is this confirmed in some way?
 
 
 
 

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Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

2007-12-03 Thread Rick Widmer



Boris Pavlov wrote:

Quey wrote:

Dan J Bernstein has recently put Qmail into the public domain,
 _http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html_





HAH! Is this confirmed in some way?


What more confirmation do you need than the second paragraph from the 
URL you listed above:


==
D. J. Bernstein
Internet mail
qmail

Information for distributors
If you're a distributor, you should join the 
0 mailing list.


I hereby place the qmail package (in particular, qmail-1.03.tar.gz, with 
MD5 checksum 622f65f982e380dbe86e6574f3abcb7c) into the public domain. 
You are free to modify the package, distribute modified versions, etc.


This does not mean that modifications are encouraged! Please take time 
to ensure that your distribution of qmail supports exactly the same 
interface as everyone else's. In particular, if you move files, please 
set up symbolic links from the original locations, so that you don't 
frivolously break scripts that work everywhere else.

==


On the other hand, what do you want to do with it now that it is public 
domain?  100 forks -- all different -- will not help the qmail world.




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Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

2007-12-03 Thread DAve
Rick Widmer wrote:
 
 
 Boris Pavlov wrote:
 Quey wrote:
 Dan J Bernstein has recently put Qmail into the public domain,
  _http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html_




 HAH! Is this confirmed in some way?
 
 What more confirmation do you need than the second paragraph from the
 URL you listed above:
 
 ==
 D. J. Bernstein
 Internet mail
 qmail
 
 Information for distributors
 If you're a distributor, you should join the
 0 mailing list.
 
 I hereby place the qmail package (in particular, qmail-1.03.tar.gz, with
 MD5 checksum 622f65f982e380dbe86e6574f3abcb7c) into the public domain.
 You are free to modify the package, distribute modified versions, etc.
 
 This does not mean that modifications are encouraged! Please take time
 to ensure that your distribution of qmail supports exactly the same
 interface as everyone else's. In particular, if you move files, please
 set up symbolic links from the original locations, so that you don't
 frivolously break scripts that work everywhere else.
 ==
 
 
 On the other hand, what do you want to do with it now that it is public
 domain?  100 forks -- all different -- will not help the qmail world.

I think that will be the natural progression, and it will probably be a
good thing in the long run. Those who actually know qmail and understand
it's operation will provide the best packaged solutions, and those who
do not know qmail will gravitate to those products. In the end, the
cream will rise to the top.

The question in my mind is who will own the name qmail, and what
product, if any, will bear that name. I've no problem running Inter7
Super-Duper Mail Server, or Netqmail v 2.0, or ShuppMail v 1.0, or qmail
v 2.0. But there are some current installations supplying qmail
installation instructions I would not run if they provided a package. I
would prefer those didn't go by the name qmail, but it ain't up to me.

DAve


-- 
I've been asking Google for a Veteran's Day logo since 2000,
maybe 1999. I was told they finally did a Veteran's Day logo,
but none of the links I was given return anything but a
normal Google logo.

Sad, very sad. Maybe the Chinese Government didn't like it?


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Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

2007-12-03 Thread Rick Widmer



DAve wrote:

Rick Widmer wrote:

On the other hand, what do you want to do with it now that it is public
domain?  100 forks -- all different -- will not help the qmail world.


I think that will be the natural progression, and it will probably be a
good thing in the long run. Those who actually know qmail and understand
it's operation will provide the best packaged solutions, and those who
do not know qmail will gravitate to those products. In the end, the
cream will rise to the top.


You are probably right that is what will happen.  I don't have to like 
it though.  :)  I think there should be one qmail, and the next version 
should be qmail-1.05 -- exactly the same thing as you get from 
netqmail-1.05.  Then add the ability to control common patches with a 
./configure script.



The question in my mind is who will own the name qmail, and what
product, if any, will bear that name. 


I don't know if it'll be approved, but I got the qmail project name on 
SourceForge, minutes after I heard it was put in public domain.


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Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

2007-12-03 Thread DAve
Rick Widmer wrote:
 
 
 DAve wrote:
 Rick Widmer wrote:
 On the other hand, what do you want to do with it now that it is public
 domain?  100 forks -- all different -- will not help the qmail world.

 I think that will be the natural progression, and it will probably be a
 good thing in the long run. Those who actually know qmail and understand
 it's operation will provide the best packaged solutions, and those who
 do not know qmail will gravitate to those products. In the end, the
 cream will rise to the top.
 
 You are probably right that is what will happen.  I don't have to like
 it though.  :)  I think there should be one qmail, and the next version
 should be qmail-1.05 -- exactly the same thing as you get from
 netqmail-1.05.  Then add the ability to control common patches with a
 ./configure script.
 
 The question in my mind is who will own the name qmail, and what
 product, if any, will bear that name. 
 
 I don't know if it'll be approved, but I got the qmail project name on
 SourceForge, minutes after I heard it was put in public domain.
 
 
 
 
 

We'd run a Inter7 supported version of qmail-1.5, of course the nicest
thing is we can change nothing and go on happy as clams with our
installs of the old patchy, outdated, unsupported qmail that so many
seem to hate s much. ;^)

DAve

-- 
I've been asking Google for a Veteran's Day logo since 2000,
maybe 1999. I was told they finally did a Veteran's Day logo,
but none of the links I was given return anything but a
normal Google logo.

Sad, very sad. Maybe the Chinese Government didn't like it?


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Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

2007-12-03 Thread Christopher Chan

Michael Johnson wrote:

For those that don't mind Flash, there is also a video up on Google
Videos (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3147768955127254412)
where he announces it as well.

I just can't help but wonder if his action is too little too late.


Who cares? Those who hate DJB will consider it so no matter what and 
those who love his stuff will be the more merrier now.


The thing I am interested in is that he did say something about future 
releases of software. What I would like to know is what does he have on 
his plate to give us?.


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Re: [vchkpw] After 7 years of neglect Qmail is now ours

2007-12-03 Thread Christopher Chan





The question in my mind is who will own the name qmail, and what
product, if any, will bear that name. 


I don't know if it'll be approved, but I got the qmail project name on 
SourceForge, minutes after I heard it was put in public domain.


What license? GPL or BSD? :-D

I hope you can garner more support.

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