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Date:      Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:06:07 -0400
From:      Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
To:        FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Subject:   Postfix upgrade
Message-ID:  <20000605130607.C7792@argon.gryphonsoft.com>

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Hi -ports, Omachonu, and Ollivier (who is being CC'd because I know he
likes and uses Postfix a lot, and seems to be "in the know" about it),

I've obtained permission from our Ports Wraith to transfer MAINTAINER of
mail/postfix to someone more active.  However, along with this update I
plan to incorporate the new maintainer's patch to upgrade Postfix to a
newer version.  According to Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net>, the
new maintainer, the Postfix "experimental" versions are stable enough.

This email is being sent to get a feeling of the public's general
opinion of the "experimental" series of Postfix.  I don't want to make a
revolutionary upgrade and have people get angry about it.  :-)

So, please: constructive comments on this topic.  I don't want to hear
one single word about "it's labelled ``experimental'', so of course we
shouldn't upgrade to it" kind of arguments.  I want to hear REAL
arguments, either for or against this sort of upgrade.

If the consensus is that the mail/postfix port should not be upgraded in
this form, then I suggest a different method: we repo-copy mail/postfix
to mail/postfix-devel and upgrade that instead.  However, I'd prefer to
avoid repo bloat if possible.

You can obtain the latest "experimental" version of Postfix at:

ftp://ftp.merit.edu/postfix/experimental/snapshot-20000531.tar.gz

Thanks to everyone for their comments, in advance.

-- 
Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
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