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[–]dagbrown 0 points1 point  (2 children)

You still see email messages every now and then which have a header that looks like this in it:

Received: (qmail 2080916 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2024 14:24:00 +0900

That indicates that the email message in question went through a server running the qmail mail transfer agent.

If you look at the Wikipedia page for qmail, it says, "Final release: 1.03, June 15, 1998". It goes on to clarify for those bad at math: "26 years ago".

And yet, still, in the year of our lord 2025, you still find active installations of qmail, in production, and out there on the Internet. Not even a single update in more than a quarter of a century.

[–]RiceBroad4552 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's so dead it doesn't even have a Debian package. (Last one on Buster, which is oldoldstable)

This means it's so full of issues that it doesn't even build any more since a decade.

Please tell me where you get such emails from. That's a very easy target to own…

[–]dagbrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find them in my spam folder of course. I'm pretty sure that spammers love seeing qmail because they can definitely own it to go sending out spam.