I was surprised that directly contacting people worked at all, but since it has I thought I'd allow it and hope it wouldn't piss off too many people.. There won't be more than that one mail, which you're free to just ignore.
If we get enough funding we can hire more people to work on Dovecot (and related projects), and that would be good for everyone.
I enjoy Dovecot and am glad you're working on further development, both in the nerd sense and the business sense. :)
I don't have an issue with a single message like this going out to make people aware of the offering. However, I would prefer that it went to the list, instead of individually to the list members. That's the only part of this I didn't care for.
If it becomes an issue, I'll deal with the issue appropriately. I just don't see an issue as of right now.
Benny
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