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[Discuss] Running a mail server, or not



On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 07:32:21PM -0400, epp at linuxmail.org wrote:
> On 06/28/2018 07:25 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> >On 6/28/2018 7:21 PM, epp at linuxmail.org wrote:
> >>K-9 Mail is a decent app, but it hasn't been updated since January.
> >So what?
> 
> For a community-developed app, it /would/ be nice to see K-9 updated
> a little more frequently than 6 months.
> 
> Maildroid, which AFAIK, is not community-developed, has more
> frequent updates. This might be a better alternative.

I largely disagree.  If the software already does what I need it to,
the only reason I'd want "frequent" updates is for security fixes,
which are inevitable.  Updates for new features should generally be
infrequent, planned, and ideally well-tested before I get them.

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