From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 22 14:16:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E688C37B4CF for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:16:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA09137; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:14:08 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAArBa4Ur; Wed Nov 22 15:13:56 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA04727; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:15:48 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200011222215.PAA04727@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: GPL rant number 31391 (was: Jordan Hubbard on Darwin) To: j@vastmind.org (Jason Spencer) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:15:48 +0000 (GMT) Cc: gsutter@zer0.org (Gregory Sutter), chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jason Spencer" at Nov 22, 2000 12:40:19 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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