Hey José First of all thanks for all your development put in esmtp, and your packaging for Debian on it! On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:35:54AM +0000, José Fonseca wrote: > I intend to orphan the esmtp package. > > The package description is: > ESMTP is a user configurable relay-only Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) with a > sendmail-compatible syntax. It's based on libESMTP supporting the AUTH > (including the CRAM-MD5 and NTLM SASL mechanisms) and the StartTLS SMTP > extensions. > . > ESMTP does not receive mail, expand aliases or manage a queue but can deliver > mail locally via an MDA. > . > This package contains the esmtp program. > > I'm also the upstream developer and I'm suspending maintainership there > too. > > There are other more popular alternatives like ssmtp. At the time I > wrote esmtp ssmtp didn't work for me, and I had spare time on my hands. > Now it is quite the opposite, and it's not worth to put any more time > maintaining these. It's 'bad about' this decision, I like esmtp. One advance I see in esmtp it alows a per-user configuration, which once let me decide for esmtp instead of ssmtp (see: http://bugs.debian.org/219542 and http://bugs.debian.org/181315). Since you are also suspending maintainership of upstream too, this mean if someone will adopt it probably also should adopt upstream's development. I would like to help maintaining esmtp in Debian, in particular from packaging point of view, but I think taking over development is a task to high for me. Many thanks José for all your work you have done in it. Bests Salvatore
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