I’ve just done an update to Qmail’s patches. Qmail is the MTA handling mail in our network.
Lately a new release of SPAMCONTROL came out. SPAMCONTROL is a set of patches developed in Germany by Erwin Hoffman, oriented to spam handling, and improving Qmail’s features to make it usable on a current mail server. I prefer it over the other branch of development that Qmail’s community has taken, which lead to the netqmail-1.0x package.
For those ignoring Qmail history, it can be interesting to say that latest official release 1.03 came out in ancient 1998. After that, just unofficial patches have been developed, both by the original author and other users, and they have become essential to use Qmail in a modern enviroment. As a matter of fact, original sources didn’t include any spam handling support excluding some mild provision for RBLs, no SMTP-AUTH or SMTP-after-POP support, and other limitations. Very few bugs have come out until now, and most of them show when using the software in a 64 bit enviroment, an option that was not even predictable at the time of code writing. A common legend is that Dan J. Bernstein is working on a mithical Qmail 2.0 since 1998.
Obviously I hope there will be no issue due to this update, but in case any should show up, users are invited to report me by mail.
Because of an electric problem happened this afternoon, LoneStar Network’s server has been shut down for some hours.
Woot! Starting today, I’m on vacation!
