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From: Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org>
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Subject: Re: which package brings nroff?
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:01:40 -0300
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John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> writes:

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> FYI, qmail hasn't been maintained by its author since 1998.  There are
> a bunch of heavily patched versions which work better or worse.  I use
> it with a different set of patches and a the mailfront SMTP daemon
> rather than the rather creaky one that comes with the qmail package.

I could not even run anything.  On the first local-delivery test, I get

Sep 19 08:37:00 freebsd kernel: pid 40818 (qmail-rspawn), jid 0, uid 1014: exited on signal 11
Sep 19 08:37:00 freebsd qmail[40816]: 1726745820.743691 alert: oh no! lost spawn connection! dying...
Sep 19 08:37:00 freebsd kernel: pid 40817 (qmail-lspawn), jid 0, uid 0: exitedon signal 11 (core dumped)

in /var/log/messages.  I've never seen this before (with qmail).  It
could be my fault, but I have the feeling that the evolution of the
system broke qmail.  I'm going to look for a minimally patched version.
Any recommendations?  Thank you!