Hey On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 08:40:12AM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > 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,
Please note this was meant like 'It's a pity.' [I'm not a native english speaker] Bests Salvatore
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