Re: [ANN] unicorn 4.8.3 - the end of an era

[Michael Fischer <mfischer@zendesk.com>]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:

> Jérémy Lecour <jeremy.lecour@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Would you mind explaining what a regular subscriber has to do to keep
> > receiving those emails in their inbox?
>
> You use ssoma[1] to to import mail into your inbox.  This is like how
> slrnpull works with NNTP or getmail/fetchmail works with POP.  It's
> only a one-way sync, but you can import it into an IMAP folder.
>
> Currently there's no SMTP delivery component, but I could probably set
> one up this week if there's enough demand for one.  The subscriber list
> will be public, though.

Is there some compelling reason why the mailing list simply cannot be
moved to another provider?  IMHO your users and fellow developers
shouldn't have to do anything other than change the submission
address.

I respect your desire to power the communication platform with free
software (and I'm sure this can still be done with Mailman or
whatever), but keep in mind the practical reality of our time, where
most of us these days are now comfortably using Webmail or or POP/IMAP
against a remote server that's not under the user's control and have
no desire to implement yet another communication conduit.

Thanks,

--Michael