hi all,
Just my opinion on the subject. I think for the first flame on dbmail
this one wasn't so bad ;)
Regarding the version information (RC3 / RC4 / 1.0). Dbmail has started
out a few years ago as a, in my opinion, logical way to store and
administer e-mail and e-mail accounts. It was actually the one thing
about M$ that i think was a good idea.
At the same time i was starting a company in the Netherlands called
IC&S together with Marloes, my girlfriend. The company was all about
hosting and e-mail services, so DBMAIL made even more sense. So i
started coding. The first thing (0.14 as i recall correctly) was very
bad, it was a C/C++ pile of crap which didn't work. Then we got our
first employee, his name was Roel and he was a programmer. At that time
i finished a first working version of dbmail together with the pop3
daemon. It was up to Roel to create the imap server. And so he did. At
the mean time we needed to keep the company going.
Now we're with 10 people and the last few months we've had a very busy
time. The first large dbmail installation (>30.000 accounts) is working
perfectly. We're using it for all of our accounts also at this time.
Because the company is actually paying for all the dbmail work that is
being done we also need money coming into the company. Fortunately that
hasn't been a problem but it has slowed development on DBmail. I had my
first vacation in 3,5 years this last month (Florida rules!) and Roel
took care of the whole company.
Long story, but i just wanted to give you guys an idea what DBmail and
it's developers are about. In the next few months we'll be getting some
more time to continue the development work on DBMail. Marloes is
working on a new site (which was initially created by Henry, somebody
from this list) and is awaiting any comments (new.dbmail.org). There
will be no RC4 but a 1.0. As Roel pointed out before, The current
version of DBmail is much more stable then any version of windows of
any other M$ product ;)
Best regards,
Eelco (Still on a jetlag, so forgive me any misspellings or weird
sentences).
