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From: Shaun Amott <shaun@inerd.com>
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Subject: Re: qpopper
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On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 04:36:41PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote:
> 
> Is there someone actively maintaining the qpopper port?  The mail  
> address associated with the port doesn't give much hope.  Qualcomm  
> now lists qpopper as legacy software.  Its not even directly  
> accessible (at least as far as I can find).  Is there any indication  
> they plan to do any maintenance?  They never incorporated the patches  
> for maildir or for fixing the homedir issues.  They did try the  
> latter in 4.0.8, but only incoporated a configuration switch.  That  
> switch is never checked in the code.
> 

The port is assigned to the default ports@ address (pointed at this
list), so it is currently not maintained.

There does however appear to be a newer version[1] available.

[1] http://core.ring.gr.jp/archives/net/mail/qpopper/qpopper4.0.9.tar.gz

-- 
Shaun Amott [ PGP: 0x6B387A9A ]
    Scientia Est Potentia.