help with qmail package for ubuntu + debian?

[Jiri Navratil]

Thank you for quick and clear responses. I will not invest time in this,
after looking at these referenced URLs.

After listening to Ubuntu UK podcast, I decided to offer also help with
qmail package. I appretiate these honest answers.

qmail + OpenBSD spamd is doing great job for me and for my customers on
OpenBSD boxes. My intention was to utilise my long good experineces and
help to provide more options for Debian / Ubuntu users.

I did two things, which may help qmail supporters. 
1. I requested qmail support from Red Hat
2. I CC Dr. Bernstein (I hope that this is not too incorrect step)

Best regards,
Jiri

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 05:26:02PM +0200, Michael Bienia wrote:
> On 2009-10-16 10:37:10 -0400, Steven Harms wrote:
> > Do not turn this into a debate about the merits of qmail, that is
> > off-topic.  You can see the debian report on inclusion here:
> > 
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510415
> 
> And here is the ITP bug for qmail: 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457318
> 
> What I know about qmail that it needs several patches to match current
> expectations of a MTA. And a qmail package might need some work to match
> Debian policy.
> So one needs to be familiar with qmail to know where to find all the
> needed patches and a little bit familiar with packaging to make a
> package which complies with the Debian policy.
> 
> Jiri, you should contact the people who want to get qmail into Debian
> (and Ubuntu then) to avoid duplicate work and also to know about the
> current status of the ITP.
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
>