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Re: ZMailer license
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, John DiMarco wrote:
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902241740001.13145-100000@misery.sdf.com>you write:
> > Well, that is an interesting question to consider. I don't recall Rayan
> >ever making a posting to this list. Rayan stopped developing Zmailer at
> >2.2. Well, that isn't true. He has done some development since then, but
> >those changes have not been seen outside UUNet Canada and/or Border
> >Technologies. So there really are two Zmailers: Matti-Zmailer and
> >Rayan-Zmailer. I've actually looked over a devel version of
> >Rayan-Zmailer. Lots of things were done quite different from
> >Matti-Zmailer. I've been told by others that Rayan has been thinking
> >about making a public release of his new Zmailer, and it might happen
> >"soon", but I imagine there are lot of legal hurdles.
>
> I don't think Rayan will ever get around to a public release of zmailer;
> he's more interested in other things now, I think.
You must mean a "new" public release. After all his 2.2 release in 1990
(?) is what started all of this.
> Anyways, there are at least six zmailers:
>
> 1. Matti's at funet.fi
> 2. The UofToronto Computer Science version we use here.
> 3. A variant of 2. used at University of Toronto Cquest
> 4. UUNet Canada's version.
> 5. The version used in BorderWare.
4 and 5 are probably the same. UUNet just uses an older version of the
Borderware stuff.
Besides the newest Borderware Zmailer has a bug that I just detected.
Send borderware.com a HELP command and you will see what I mean.
> 6. The version used by HotMail.
I don't know if this really exists. The SMTP receiver looks like
Zmailer 2.2 with the versions removed (no ESMTP support just like
stock Zmailer-2.2). They strangely removed Rayan's trademark from the
help, but left the zmhacks@cs.toronto.edu as a contact for server
comments!
> Of the above, 1 and 2, and probably 3, can be made available, and maybe even
> 4. Forget about 5 and 6 -- in fact, as far as I can tell, Hotmail won't even
> publicly admit to the existence of 6.
>
> > And of course, Univeristy of Toronto staff made some maintenance
> >releases of Zmailer available. These aren't in common use anymore, as
> most people seem to be running Matti-Zmailer
>
> Matti has contributed a lot to zmailer and I recommend people use his
> version rather than our's, which has been changed only minimally in several
> years. Plus, he maintains his version for people to use in general; our only
> interest in zmailer is for our own needs. For example, our campus' largest
> email site (Info Commons) uses Matti's zmailer, not our's.
>
> But if somebody would still like to see a more recent maintenance release
> of our code, I can arrange for one to be put on our ftp server.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
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>
Tom