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The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 10.0, the eighteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system. It represents cumulative improvements to the operating system si…

We’ve released notqmail 1.08, addressing these vulnerabilities (among other things). HN discussion thread for the 1.08 release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23252421

I haven't experienced a need for more granular restrictions. Can you give an example of a problem it would solve?

You wanna write a new MTA from scratch? Me neither :-p

P.S. On the acceptutils page, check out the POP3 hole I found :-)

Vanilla qmail was never an open relay unless you really intended to configure it as one. It's just that the only relay controls were IP-based. Back in the day, before AUTH was wide…

Thank you!

Sorry, we think it's rested plenty long enough :-) You've given some excellent examples of how qmail got this way, and what notqmail needs to change to be viable. I have my own run…

Yep, after reading the post I'm not any less impressed by (or interested in) Rust. If the post's claim were "Wait until Rust changes more slowly before investing more heavily in it…

For the moment, we're targeting sysadmins who already run qmail (or netqmail). Much later, when we begin to approach feature parity with Postfix, notqmail might start being an inte…

It will be a lot of work, no question about that. Fortunately none of it will be about Maildir, as folks like you have long since ironed out all those issues (thanks!). It's possib…

Yes, and while I haven't run s/qmail myself, I have sometimes borrowed (and then usually refactored) some of his code, and have frequently collaborated with him on improving ucspi-…

People can put whatever they want in their own .qmail files. That doesn't affect anything unless qmail believes those .qmail files are relevant to what it's delivering. A user cont…

Yes, for a long time it's been the case that to run qmail you have to really really want to run qmail. That's why I put so much effort for so many years into cross-platform package…

They can’t, unless qmail has been configured to know they control mail for domain.tld. The admin configuration mechanism for this (control/virtualdomains) is simple and powerful.

Hey dude! Been a little while. Hope you’re well. If we were starting from scratch, I’d be first to say let’s pick something safer than C. But we’re starting from where DJB left off…

Extensibility is [an explicit goal]( https://github.com/notqmail/notqmail/wiki#goals ), for reasons such as these. If we introduce some more small interfaces -- 1998 qmail was alre…

Yes, exactly right. One other PR left to merge, then we'll update the docs and cut 1.07.

"This implementation" is notqmail, which none of the netqmail people are involved in. netqmail 1.06, which none of us notqmail people were involved in, was produced by a handful of…

Writing Ikiwiki plugins is often very easy, because triggers for most events you'd want to get involved in are available, and because much of Ikiwiki's own functionality is impleme…