Mail Stack Name RFC

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Mon May 17 17:04:02 UTC 2010



"Imre Gergely" <gimre at narancs.net> wrote:

>
>What about something more exotic, like dovefix ;) and in the description
>you can say what it's for.
>
>Or because dovecot/amavis is kinda integrated in postfix (like dovecot
>doing the delivery/auth for postfix, that's a big part of mail
>delivery), it could be something with -integrate .
>
>IMHO mail-stack-auth is too generic for a package name. It should at
>least contain "dovecot", or "postfix", or as above suggested, both ;)
>because it's not really related to sendmail/exim/courier*.
>
The names should be functional. It's quite alright for us to have made some opinionated choices around the tools we recommend.

The mail stack is built around the tools we support. This shouldn't be surprising. What we are trying to achieve is a name that will make sense to people who don't know package names. 

Scott K





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