Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:15:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: j@vastmind.org (Jason Spencer) Cc: gsutter@zer0.org (Gregory Sutter), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL rant number 31391 (was: Jordan Hubbard on Darwin) Message-ID: <200011222215.PAA04727@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011212342140.30848-100000@localhost> from "Jason Spencer" at Nov 22, 2000 12:40:19 AM
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> Qualcomm maintains a major POP server which is free and open-source. Actually, it's poorly maintained. It has a number of serious bugs, which make life difficult for people writing POP clients, starting with the way the EOL looks following a terminating "." after a RETR. Patches have been submitted for this several time. Unless your code allows for this, it may have a hard time RETR'ing mesages from it. [ ... "ad-ware" ... ] I have no problem with their mail client distribution model; I would changes dome defaults and some features of the client, were I in charge of it (like the line wrap thing and the use of non-standard HTML), but these are all cosmetic or other minor defects. [ ...source availability for the client ... ] The only thing that makes me want this is the lack of support for the client on some platforms, e.g. FreeBSD. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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