Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail
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Re: Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail
#2Somewhat related, have there any updates or a forked version of daemontools?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemontools
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
I’ve been using parts of it for many many years without issue but it does feel odd that nothing has required an update in nearly 20 years. Maybe the Unix philosophy and DJB is just that good!
Re: Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail
#3Somewhat related, have there any updates or a forked version of daemontools? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemontools http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html I’ve been using parts of it for many many years without issue but it does feel odd that nothing has required an update in nearly 20 years. Maybe the Unix philosophy and DJB is just that good!
runit is a modern rewrite folling djb's principals...
http://smarden.org/runit/
Re: Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail
#4This would be great if some of the excellent components that work with qmail to make a nice email appliance also got updated.
qmail with vpopmail and qmailadmin used to make a great email appliance, but previously the overhead of maintaining it made it un-usable long term so I ditched it for postfix+dovecote+postfixadmin
but there was a lot to like about qmail+vpopmail+qmailadmin
Re: Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail
#5Somewhat related, have there any updates or a forked version of daemontools? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemontools http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html I’ve been using parts of it for many many years without issue but it does feel odd that nothing has required an update in nearly 20 years. Maybe the Unix philosophy and DJB is just that good!
Daemontools-encore is a fork with minor feature updates, and there's also a whole ecosystem of choices like Runit, S6, and nosh to look at if you're really interested.
Re: Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail
#6Somewhat related, have there any updates or a forked version of daemontools? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemontools http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html I’ve been using parts of it for many many years without issue but it does feel odd that nothing has required an update in nearly 20 years. Maybe the Unix philosophy and DJB is just that good!
runit is the modern alternative, I guess. But things like this are very simple so I'd be surprised if they needed updates - or rewrites.
Re: Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail
#7Somewhat related, have there any updates or a forked version of daemontools? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemontools http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html I’ve been using parts of it for many many years without issue but it does feel odd that nothing has required an update in nearly 20 years. Maybe the Unix philosophy and DJB is just that good!
runit is a modern rewrite folling djb's principals... http://smarden.org/runit/
I use runit for pretty much everything now, I love it, no need to worry about if you're running BSD rc, systemd or sysvinit, there's always a runit package available that integrates with it and it handles logging so nicely.
Re: Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail
#8What's with "netqmail" in the readme vs "notqmail" here and in the project name?
Re: Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
runit is a modern rewrite folling djb's principals... http://smarden.org/runit/
I use runit for pretty much everything now, I love it, no need to worry about if you're running BSD rc, systemd or sysvinit, there's always a runit package available that integrates with it and it handles logging so nicely.
We still use it under systemd to run our services. I don't trust systemd to work reliably.
Re: Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail
#10What's with "netqmail" in the readme vs "notqmail" here and in the project name?
README netqmail 1.06 4 years ago
notqmail begins where netqmail left off