Re: vixie out

[Bill Wohler]

Paul Vixie <address@hidden> writes:

> folks, it's been a blast. i used MH from 1985 to 2005 exclusively,
> then from 2005 to 2015 in parallel with uw-imapd, and not at all since
> mark crispen's death when i moved to dovecot and Maildir.

Dovecot is a server and Maildir is mail storage format. What are you
using as a UI?

> i've helped find and fix bugs in the MH library, i regularly tested
> and patched the MH (and Kerberos) parts of uw-imap, i even wrote some
> hooks (thanks, jon!) for maintaining and using a BDB index for NMH's
> folders.
>
> i've operated a 32-bit NMH build server back when i had 32-bit
> servers, and i've started a few and joined many discussions as to
> software portability and system architecture here.
>
> but i think it's time i admitted that IMAP and MIME are my future, and
> that i will probably never use NMH or MH-E again.

Yeah, with all of the security that NASA is adding, my days of fetchmail
and procmail are numbered at work, and with it, MH and MH-E, unless I
can find a way to bridge the gap between the NASA Linux email UI
(Evolution?) and the MH mail store.

> you are a great team but it's time i said goodbye. i'm about to answer
> the unsubscribe-verify e-mail; i don't see any non-cc'd followups.

And all the best to you.

> goodbye all!
>
> -- 
> P Vixie

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