[Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

Bill Cole dovecot-20061108 at billmail.scconsult.com
Sun Apr 1 00:54:57 EEST 2007


At 8:32 AM -0400 3/31/07, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Frank Cusack wrote:
>>FWIW, in my experience, all 1.0 software is utter shit and should be
>>avoided like the plague if stability is a requirement.  So 0.99, 1.0, etc
>>is all meaningless to me.
>
>1.0 = shit is almost always true for payware IMHO.  Open source has a far
>better track record on this.  If I had to give dovecot a version number
>right now, I would say it is about version 9.8.
>
>My one concern about dovecot is the "feeping creaturism" in the code.
>Why does it have to be an LDA?  That is what procmail is for.


That specific case is a very good thing. Procmail is not a good piece 
of software to rely on and offer to users as their filtering tool.

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Bill Cole                                  
bill at scconsult.com



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