Re: removal proposals in mail: drac smtpfeed clamsmtp qpopper spamd gld qpopper popa3d sendymail

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:55:19 -0400, Greg Troxel <gdt#lexort.com> wrote:

> Please speak up if you use any of these or if you have reason to believe
> there are users.  I'll wait 7 days before dropping.

>[snip]

> spamd: Last update 2006.  Hard to believe it does anything useful in
> 2025.

I use it and it works as advertised (now that my ISP no-longer blocks
inbound port 25).

(As 'pf' of the same vintage is still available and 'npf' has not yet
reached feature-parity with it, I will continue to use 'pf' and 'spamd'
in conjunction with it.)


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