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Re: [opensuse-factory] Procmail is not mantained
  • From: Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:24:08 +0100
  • Message-id: <20101119162408.51b1e4e5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Christian,

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:07:29 +0100
Christian Boltz <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

on Freitag, 19. November 2010, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:11:01 +0100 Christian Boltz wrote:
[1] at least I think so after a short look at the changelog - the
entries look more like maintenance stuff. (Please correct me if
I'm wrong - maybe I simply missed the "cool new features"
section.) On the positive side, courier _is_ actively
maintained, which makes it better than procmail ;-)

I again read this as "software that does not need changes for almost
10 years must be bad, only software that is in need of constant
bugfixing can be good".

To be honest, I think this is plain stupid. Not having to touch a
piece of software for years is more like a sign of quality (at least
if it is a non-trivial piece of software).

Yes, of course. However, there are some real advantages of dovecot when
you compare it to courier. For example:

We were talking about procmail here.
--
Stefan Seyfried

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