Hi Jose Thanks for your reply and sorry that it took me a bit longer to reply.
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 10:01:22PM +0000, José Fonseca wrote: > For several years now that my maintenance of esmtp consists just in > accepting and applying patches with enhancements and bug fixes I > receive, with little or no alterations. Truth be said, it doesn't take > as much time as maintaining the debian packages, which you're taking > upon yourself. I could continue to maintain the upstream source a > little more in this fashion, but I have no plans of doing any coding > myself, so I don't think there's any point in pretending I'm > maintaining it. I rather make it clear the project is not being > maintained, so that users either take maintainership or start looking > for alternatives. I think esmtp works well indeed. I have not yet taken the packaging, but I will try to take care of it (as you have seen, I prepared 1.2 and was uploaded to unstable). If it is possible to you to still continue maitnaining esmtp upstream as you mentioned, it would be great. As you mentioned there are many alternatives around in meantime, but to my knowledge esmtp is the only one having both 'user configurable' and 'local delivery trhough a mda' (receiving mails to root, from cronjobs). On one side, I talked already to some of the people in Fedora which maintained esmtp there, if they are interested. So far no one has futher time to take over esmtp development. On the other side, I also contacted Martin Lambers, the developer of msmtp. He looked what is needed to implement the same for msmtp but said to me, that at the moment, as there is much to do, he has not time at the moment 'porting' this functionality from esmtp to msmtp. But he will accept any patches to msmtp if someone would submit there. So one other thing I can see here, is to try to find someone who is interested in having this in msmtp and having also time and ressources and in particular the skills to port that. What I can propose, or what my contribution I can immagine, is to take over the Debian packaging, and help trying where it is possible to me, to have these in msmtp. But unfortunately I think I do not have the skills to guarentee to be able to implement this for msmtp (which I need, but Martin Lambers told me I'm not the only one ;-)) Many thanks for your reply, Bests Salvatore
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