<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div>since Ubuntu 18.04 has reached feature freeze we started to think about 18.10.</div><div>One of the changes ahead is the dropping of the mail-stack-delivery package (part of dovecot).<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>This package was created a long time ago with the intend to simplify several steps of a mail server setup, for example to get a safe ssl secured default installation.</div><div>It is essentially almost only a postinst to set up some better defaults.</div><div><br></div><div>But the bit that I can derive from bug reports and such indicates that it is almost unused these days and <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">has become an unused maintenance debt (it started to show it's age - no more matching e.g. recommended ciphers).</span></div><div><br></div><div>Furthermore the world has moved on:</div><div>- For encryption ssl is now default in dovecot-core</div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">- In general the hosting your own mail service has become less attractive</span></div><div>- If users want to set up a mail server still they often look more for e.g. for Mail-in-a-box [1]</div><div><br></div><div>For all of these reasons we intend to drop the mail-stack-delivery package in 18.10</div><div><br></div><div>If there is a big love/consumption of the package we might have missed please speak up.</div><div>In that case we likely want to drop it from dovecot still, but community could take over maintenance in a separate package that lives in universe.<br></div><div><br></div><div>[1]: <a href="https://mailinabox.email/">https://mailinabox.email/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px">Christian Ehrhardt</span><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px">Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server</div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px">Canonical Ltd</div></div></div></div></div>
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