Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent
- To: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>, pape@smarden.org
- Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, 457318@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent
- From: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:58:32 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 877ij8t26f.fsf@delenn.ganneff.de>
- Mail-followup-to: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>, pape@smarden.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, 457318@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20071221152352.GH3717@sliepen.org> (Guus Sliepen's message of "Fri\, 21 Dec 2007 16\:23\:52 +0100")
- References: <20071221134010.28300.qmail@34070d73c0baee.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> <[🔎] 20071221142828.3633.qmail@e665c06f8ff227.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> <[🔎] 20071221152352.GH3717@sliepen.org>
On 11240 March 1977, Guus Sliepen wrote:
>> qmail is meant as a replacement for the entire sendmail-binmail system
>> on typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts. See BLURB, BLURB2, BLURB3, and
>> BLURB4 in /usr/share/doc/qmail/ for more detailed advertisements.
> This is not a proper ITP. You only mention where to find documentation
> on system with a supposedly already installed qmail. To file a proper
> ITP, make sure you've read the policy manual about what to put in the
> short and long description of a package, and do:
And then there is the question if such a piece of software should really
go into Debian. There are *way* better MTAs out there that dont need
tons of patches applied just to fulfill basic requirements for a MTA.
--
bye Joerg
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