Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

[amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk (Andrew M.A. Cater)]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:12:09PM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
> Miros/law Baran <baran@knm.org.pl> writes:
> > Ah, but it's been there, once. I remember that my first Debian
> > installation included in the default setup all the accounts used by
> > qmail (if not the qmail itself).
> 
> OK, that's possible, I can only remember back to about 2000, when
> there was only the source package. If it has been included as a
> binary, then it must have been removed as distributing a binary used
> to be illegal until the (recent?) license change.
> 

Smail?? [Debian mail agent pre-exim]. Don't think we've _ever_ 
distributed qmail, just as we stopped distributing Pine once the licence 
restrictions became clear for similar reasons. You are making me think 
back to 1996-1997 here :)

Andy